Re: grub.conf emptied, and now i get kernel panic?

From: Jeff Vian (jvian10_at_charter.net)
Date: 08/25/05

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Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 07:56:42 -0500

    On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 11:13 +0000, Kahn Seidl wrote:
    > I have already tried without LABEL, i never used lable, it was just a
    > type-o.
    >
    > I ommited lable, and point root to / and left out rbgh, and got less error
    > messages, but still got the kernel panic.
    >
    > oh boy.
    >
    > martin
    >
    > >From: Jim Cornette <fc-cornette@insight.rr.com>
    > >Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>
    > >To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>
    > >Subject: Re: grub.conf emptied, and now i get kernel panic?
    > >Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 06:57:08 -0400
    > >
    > >David Colomer wrote:
    > >
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    > >>Kahn Seidl wrote:
    > >>
    > >>
    > >>>Somehow my grub.conf is emptied. But, what I did is put it back in the
    > >>>best I could from what someone else posted.
    > >>>
    > >>>title fc3
    > >>> root (hd0,2)
    > >>> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABLE=/dev/hda2 rhgb quiet
    > >>> initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
    > >>>
    > >>>Now when it boots I get a kernel panic and errors abotu mounting...
    > >>>here is the list of errors
    > >>>
    > >>>
    > >
    > >Should the LABLE be LABEL instead? Or should the LABLE be removed entirely
    > >because /dev/hda2 is the device name and not a LABEL?
    > >
    > >title fc3
    > > root (hd0,2)
    > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
    > > initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
    > >
    > >OR:
    > >
    > >title fc3
    > > root (hd0,2)
    > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=/dev/hda2 rhgb quiet
    > > initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
    > >
    > >Either version might work vs. the above version.
    Martin,
    You need to use one of the structures Jim showed above.
    >From your comment above I infer that you have something like root=/ in
    the kernel line, which will not work.

    > >
    > >Jim
    > >
    > >
    > >
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