Hi! Maybe naming of devices? 2.4 sees SATA devices as /dev/sda, /dev/sdb ... 2.6 sees SATA devices as /dev/hda /dev/hdb So init trie to boot up let say from /dev/sda1 but since there is new kernes, reports first disk as /dev/hda1 So it fails to mount root. Try to add root=/dev/sda1 or other boot partitions that you use and then try to change /etc/fstab file. Hope this helps. MIaln Andrew Halliwell wrote:
I recently installed a system using RAID 1 via the SuSE install procedure. On 2.4.21-193, everything's fine, but after compiling 2.6.3 (and then 2.6.4 to see if that'd fix it), it sees the md devices and attempts to activate them, but fails to mount the root FS.
I was wondering what's changed in 2.6 to cause this, and if there's a workaround?
(Can't give much more info cos it all scrolls off the screen too fast and once the kernel's paniced with "Failed to mount the root fs", I can't scroll back to see if there's a specific complaint.)
Thanks.