Bug 55994
| Summary: | Using PXE, Kernel panic: VFS can't mount root fs from initrd | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Elie Bulka <elie.m.bulka> |
| Component: | pxe | Assignee: | Elliot Lee <sopwith> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.1 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2002-06-21 10:59:16 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0) Description of problem: Using PXE to install RHL7.1, the kernel - after decompressing - complains about not being able to mount root fs. The client machine has 1GB RAM. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Have RHL7.1 based PXE server ready with Redhat supplied linux.0, linux.1, linux.2 (bootstrap, vmlinuz and initrd) 2. Client machine using PXE client, downloads the bootstrap (linux.0), which then downloads linux.1 & linux.2. 3. Linux.1 (vmlinuz) decompresses and tris to mount root fs 4. Error: "VFS: cannot open root device "" or 01:01" "Please append a correct "root=" boot option" "Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 01:01" Actual Results: Client machine freezes. Cold boot is required. Expected Results: RHL 7.1 installation should have continued. Additional info: