On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 08:48:01PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: | Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | >On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 06:51:17PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote:
| >| The failure during boot is where the VFS fails to find the device at the
| >| address/location specified.
| >
| >How about double-checking lilo's config that the root= parameter is
| >correct. Are you trying to boot the exact same kernel as before? If
| >not, do you have the disk controller compiled in or loaded from the
| >initrd?
| Would these suggestions apply if I can resolve the problem by resorting
| to the original RAM?
They apply if you have no better ones :-). Almost 2 months ago I had
problems booting a new machine with a 2.4 kernel other than the bf2.4
one. I couldn't figure out why it couldn't find any /bin/init. It
turned out that, somehow, I had "boot=" instead of "root=" in boot
loader config. 'b' != 'r'
| root= parameter is correct
| same kernel - yes.
| as for the disk controller, it hasn't been changed since the successful
| boots from the old RAM.
Ok.
-D
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