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On Tue, 25 Nov 1997 04:15:23 GMT, Glen Williams <glenwill@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
>I installed Redhat 4.2 and I was having problems with the 2.0.30
>kernel. I reconfigured and compiled halve a dozen times (on a 486,
>very frustrating) without success. I kept getting kernel panics, and
>it couldn't find the root fs. I was only really adding IP and Ethernet
>stuff to the config.
>After some time I decided to download 2.0.32. It compiled and worked
>first go. So the question is, is there are known problem with the
>source on the 4.2 CD? Did the source really install properly using
>rpm? It didn't report any errors. Any ideas?
>
>Regards
>Glen
Hi,
   I'm only a Linux newbie , but I had the same problem with Redhat
2.0.30 (kernel panic and unable to find the root filesystem). In my case I
had to 'rdev' the kernel as I had NOT specified the root device in LILO.
   I think the kernel was set to dev/sda1 (SCSI device) after I compiled,
naturally I had a IDE drive on /dev/hda, with my root partition on /dev/hda3!
   The command 'rdev /boot/vmlinuz /dev/hda3 ' fixed it. Note your root device
may be different to mine.
   Executing 'rdev /boot/vmlinuz' will print the root device encoded in the
kernel. From 'Running Linux'-O'Reilly , p123.
   
   Hope this helps.
                               Terry
			       
   I spent 16 years using DOS, 2 months using Linux,....... now I know what they
mean by 'The One True Way'.			       
   
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