like im sure this is a pretty common mistake....for all the new people out there messing aroudn with linux

in anycase im getting

VFS: Cannot open root device "LABEL=/" or 00:00
Please append a correct "root=" boot option

Kernel panic: VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 00:00


reason for getting this error.....sigh i figured i could go and modify the grub.conf myself considering it was showing 4 other kernels to choose from

i just wanted to have my current kernel only so i took out what i thought was harmless info from the grub.conf pretaingitn to the OTHER kernels...now i cant boot up at all

How can i solve the user-end problem ??

i fixed thie problem..

went into windows and opened up Partition Magic and was able to view my linux drive i went to the /boot/grub dir and thank god it made a back up so i deleted the file and renamed the back up and vola!

i was getting skerred i was gonna have to use windows for awhile

I have come across problems like that from time to time. I always use Knoppix to fix such things - and fix other people's Windows, just for show...

I was trying to upgrade my kernel from 2.4.22 to 2.4.27 I'm having the same error message when I tried to bootup the new kernel. (2.4.27) Does anyone know where should I start in fixing my problem?

Check your new kernel supports your root file system. I usualy compile it in rather than use a module. I use FC2 but with reiserfs. Look at /etc/fstab mine is :-

/dev/hda2 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,user,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0


I installed FC2. Cut out all the bits I did not want. Dumped whole lot as a tar archive. Reformatted hda2 as reiserfs.
Reloaded the tar archive.
If I do not edit fstab I get the same error as you.
Hope all this gives you some clue as to where to look.

Well, I'm still not sure what to do. I'm using FC1. Here is my /etc/fstab old kernel setting (2.4.22).

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults 1 2
LABEL=/opt1 /opt ext3 defaults 1 2
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0

for your boot volume try in fstab

/dev/hdan / ext3 defaults 1 1

where hdan is where your root is, in my case hda2

Your kernel must be able to read ext3 filesystem