Bug 22718 - kernel -2.4.0-0.43.4 is unable to mount root system
Summary: kernel -2.4.0-0.43.4 is unable to mount root system
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Raw Hide
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel
Version: 1.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael K. Johnson
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-12-22 06:14 UTC by Knut J BJuland
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:30 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-12-22 06:14:35 UTC
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Description Knut J BJuland 2000-12-22 06:14:32 UTC 
I have made an initrd file and put initrd=initrd-2.4.0-0.43.4 into
lilo.conf.
When the pc boot this message appear.: VFS mount root ext2 filesystem.
kmod failed to exec /sbin/nodprobe -s -k block-major-3, errno=2. I have
update with lates modutils from rawhide and glics and gcc from
redhat-updates-7. I used kernel-2.4.0-0.25 to install the lates kernel, and
I run /sbin/mkinitrd initrd-2.4.0-0.43.4 and the edit lilo.conf. Before
running lilo.
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2000-12-22 16:53:12 UTC 
The kernel mistakenly doesn't require mkinitrd >= 2.7; it needs to.

That way ide modules are included; this oversight will be fixed in
the next rawhide kernel. In the meantime, installing that
version of mkinitrd and running it should leave a working initrd.
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