boot custom kernel and /etc/fstab

[Noah]

On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 14:32:37 -0500, Yasushi Okubo wrote
> Do you have a raid array ?  If so, the driver may need to be compiledfor your custom kernel.   It is better to check your /etc/module.conffor what type of drivers are expected for your nomal kernel.

Hi,

I dont have a raid array.  but I did comment out the scsi_hostadapter ata_piix in the /etc/modules.conf file since it was creating issues when installing some other kernels.  am I doing the right thing here?

here is a copy of my /etc/modules.conf --- to get an idea of what I did.

--- snip ----

alias eth0 tg3
#alias scsi_hostadapter ata_piix
alias sound-slot-0 i810_audio
post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
alias sound-slot-1 rme96xx
post-install sound-slot-1 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
pre-remove sound-slot-1 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
alias usb-controller usb-uhci
alias usb-controller1 ehci-hcd

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> 
> Noah wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 19:10:32 +0000, Stuart Sears

wrote

On Tuesday 02 Nov 2004 18:39, Noah

wrote:

using: Redhat-enterprise WS version

3

I just built a custom kernel using the 2.4.21-20.EL source rpm. it

simply

does not boot and claims a VFS error and is unable to open root

device

"LABEL=/"

have you tried putting the actual device node instead of the

LABEL=/

option?

e.g. kernel /whatever ro root=/dev/hda2

(or whichever /dev/hdaX your / Filesystem is) df will tell you this

( I assume you can still boot with an old

kernel?)

e.g: [stuart at laptop stuart]$ df Filesystem 1K-blocks

 Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda7 6048320

4815104 925976 84% / none 517712 0

517712 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda8 21204420 3317020

16810244 17% /home /dev/sda1 241263968 62852732

166155652 28%

/mnt/disk

so in my case

root=/dev/hda7

Stuart,

thanks for the quick reply. I am going to assume that /dev/sda2 is my

root

filesystem -

right?

--- snip

---

$ df

-k

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted

on

/dev/sda2 151723100 3861340 140154580 3%

/

/dev/sda1 101089 35938 59932 38%

/boot

none 512700 0 512700 0%

/dev/shm

--- snip

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cheers,

Noah

Stuart

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