Re: change from lilo to grub results in kernel panic

Jürgen Schöpf wrote:

Hi!

1) HISTORY
I ran my slackware 9 for years booting with lilo from /dev/hde3 (hde1
being an obsolete Win partition, hde2=swap). The high number of hd is
due to hardware configuration of the GA-BX-board having 4 IDE slots,
only 3+4 being usable as UDMA...

Last week I put Fedora 5 on /dev/hde1 and changed to grub alongside the
installation. Fedora didn't recognise the bootable linux, so I added by
hand what I knew from lilo.conf:

2) SITUATION
============================
LILO (extract):

append="hda=ide-scsi"
boot = /dev/hde
image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/hde3
label = Volkerding
read-only

============================
GRUB:

#boot=/dev/hde
title Fedora Core (2.6.15-1.2054_FC5)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.img
title Slack9
root = /dev/hde3
kernel (hd0,2) /boot/vmlinuz hda=ide-scsi vga=773

============================

3) PROBLEM

Fedora is smoothly booting. Slackware is starting to boot, but ends up
with a "kernel panic":

"Please append a correct "root=" boot option
unable to mount root fs on 03:06"

I can still boot the Slackware from a bootdisk/bootable cdrom.
I have seen several discussions adressing similar problems, but they all
occurred after recompiling kernels. I did not compile any of the two
kernels involved!

So? Any syntax error in my "menu.lst" that I could not identify? Or any
other idea?

Thanx
:-J

I think this will work:
title Slack9
root (hd0,2)
kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hde3 hda=ide-scsi vga=773

.

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