Re: address@hidden: Bug#111315: grub: problem with DAC960, kernel 2.4 and initrd]

[dman]

I think I may have some helpful information regarding this.

On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 08:25:16AM +1000, Jason Thomas wrote:
| ----- Forwarded message from Laurent Bonnaud <address@hidden> -----
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[ kernel 2.4.x ]
...
| >  - partitions are detected correctly (including the root partition)
| >  - kernel stops with a message like this: "I do not find my root and I want 
to cry"
| > 
| > Here is what I have in /boot/grub/menu.lst:
...
| > kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.9-686 root=/dev/rd/c0d0p1 ro
                                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This looks a lot like a devfs path.  I recently enabled evfs in my
2.4.8 kernel and had an interesting time getting it to boot.  I got
the "I have no root and I want to scream" kernel panic many times.  It
turned out that I needed to use the old dev name in the kernel's root=
argument.  (I just have a plain ide disk though)

Try this and see if it works then.

HTH,
-D