Kernel upgrade trouble

katmai90210 · 11-06-2003, 09:02 PM

running redhat9, tried to upgrade the kernel to 2.4.22, and when i reboot it says that he was unable to mount root on / nor he does not recognize LABEL=/ as some kind of partition ... i'm going crazy upon this

kuyalfinator · 11-06-2003, 09:16 PM

Are you able to use the rescue disk to boot from to view your
mount points for:

/ (root)
/home
/swap

Once you are able to do that, view the log files under /var/log
of the root partition. Let me know what the /var/log/message
says, then we can go on from here.

Look here at the following thread for more information.

Red Hat custom Kernel compilation mini-How-To for Red Hat 8-9

Skyline · 11-07-2003, 12:34 AM

Using LILO when I went to 2.4.22 I had the same problem - I had to explicitly state the device name of the partition in terms of root=/dev/......... rather than using Red Hat's label=/ etc .

katmai90210 · 11-07-2003, 09:32 PM

i have done it.... removed the line with root=LABEL=/. ... etc.. it boots fine ... thanx all

) now i will harden its security ... i will try to apply some patches