Re: PassingBootParameter?

[ThomasRatliffDDS]

Thank you for your suggestion and time.  The key to my problem was to
explicitly specify the root partition.

kernel (hd3,0)/vmlinuz-2.4.9-31 ide3=0xfff0,0xffff,9 vga=0x0F05
intrd (hd3,0)/initrd-2.4.9-31
boot

failed  but

kernel (hd3,0)/vmlinuz-2.4.9-31 ide3=0xfff0,0xffff,9 vga=0x0F05
        root=/dev/hdg5
intrd (hd3,0)/initrd-2.4.9-31
boot

succeeded!

thanks


On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Christoph Plattner wrote:

> I also want to give the hint to `initrd', because you are speaking about
> the
> "modularized kernel" !!
>
> So if your `lilo.conf' included the line `initrd' then you have to use
> the
> grub command or config
>
> initrd /boot/your_init_rd
>
> With friendly regards
> Christoph P.
>
>
> Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer wrote:
> >
> > By any chance you don't have an "initrd=" line in you lilo.conf file for
> > the 2.4.9-31 kernel??
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 12:28:45PM -0800, ThomasRatliffDDS wrote:
> > >
> > > This kernel is on a UDMA100 60Gb drive and UDMA133controller
> > >
> > > kernel (hd3,0)/vmlinuz-2.4.9-31 ide3=0xfff0,0xffff,9
> > >
> > > The pci errors early in the boot process (scrolling by so fast it is
> > > difficult to read) are something like
> > >
> > > pci: Error while updating region .....
> > >
> > > The last messages look like
> > >
> > > pivotroot:pivot_root (/sysroot, sysroot/init..)failed: 2
> > > Freeing unused memory: 224K freed
> > > kernel panic:  No init found:  Try passing init= option to kernel
> > >
> > > The above 2.4.9-31 modular kernel passes/boots fine under lilo
> > >
> > > A 2.2.20 kernel modularized except for the aic-7870 SCSI card and on a
> > > SCSI drive with the ide3=0xfff0,0xfff,9 passed boot parameter boot fine
> > > under lilo and grub with the UDMA100 hdg4 partition, 30Gb, mounted as a
> > > holding disk for amanda tape backups
> > >
> > > Again above modular 2.4 kernel on the UDMA100 fails to boot under grub
> >
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