[PLUG] Trouble with 2.6.27.39 kernel...
Michael Robinson
plug_1 at robinson-west.com
Tue Dec 1 09:00:51 UTC 2009
I'm trying to replace a 2.6.10 kernel on a Slackware 10.1 system
with a 2.6.27.39 kernel. Well, I think I have a usable initrd.gz
and kernel now, but I haven't been able to boot successfully.
In the old days, you used to say root=/dev/sda6 for example
if that is the partition on your scsi disk that holds root.
I get a warning not to do that in the boot messages and it
doesn't work. What is the new method of setting the root?
Do I need to boot with the old 2.6.10 kernel and label the
root partition with an ext3 file system label?
I did the following mkinitrd incantantion:
mkinitrd -c -k 2.6.27.39 -m jbd:ext3 -m scsi_transport_??:aic7xxxx
... maybe I'm forgetting something...
Like I say though, I think I have the initrd and kernel image that I
need to boot. I just don't know what the new method of specifying
the root filesystem is.
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