[more snipping]On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 12:05:24PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). VFS: Cannot open root device "LABEL=/" or unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic - not syncing : VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
Using "root=/dev/hda2" works around the problem. Odd.
I've always hated that label thing. It is a bandaid that attempts to solve one solvable problem (changing disk device names) by creating another unsolvable problem (non-uniq labels).
Just use root=/dev/hda2, and also edit /etc/fstab to contain real device names. Get rid of that label thing completely. If you ever change your hardware configuration (how often does that happen? once every couple of years? plus hd* names do not change when you add/remove disks) you can always easily edit lilo.conf and fstab by booting into rescue mode.
That will also save you huge amount of grief if you ever connect additional disk to your box that already contains file system with "LABEL=/" or /var or /usr (disk from another box, that you want to reuse, or simply repair something on it and return it to original box). Statistics say that in such case you should have 50% chance of mounting the right partitions during boot. However, in my experience, in 99% of such cases, Linux mounts wrong partitions if you use labels in fstab.
This doesn't solve the original problems of labels not working. But IMHO, labels were bad idea to begin with, so I can't say I feel sorry for seeing them not working ;-)
-- Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic@xxxxxx> Pollard Banknote Limited Systems Administrator 1499 Buffalo Place Tel: (204) 474-2323 ext 276 Winnipeg, MB R3T 1L7
