KERNEL PANIC - Can not open root device "sda6" or unknown-block (0,0)...

[paralizer]

Hi, I have jus installed new kernel today 2.6.20.1 and when I tried to boot my new kernel I'v got the folloving message:

KERNEL PANIC - Can not open root device "sda6" or unknown-block (0,0)
Please apend a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic - not syncining:VFS unable to mount root fs on unknown block (0,0)

I have also tried to recompile the kernel without modifying any options, and still the same.

Here is my fstab file:

[root@ariel ~]# cat /etc/fstab
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
LABEL=SWAP-sda7 swap swap defaults 0 0

Her is my /etc/grub.conf file:

[root@ariel ~]# cat /etc/grub.conf
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
# root (hd0,5)
# kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda6
# initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,5)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title kernel-2.6.20.1
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20.1 ro root=/dev/sda6 panic=10
title Fedora Core (2.6.19-1.2911.fc6)
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.19-1.2911.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.19-1.2911.fc6.img

And here are the results from df -h:

[root@ariel ~]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6 41G 4.9G 34G 13% /
tmpfs 505M 0 505M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda5 49G 16G 31G 34% /disk2
/dev/sda1 20G 173M 19G 1% /disk1

Here are the contents of my /boot partition:

[root@ariel ~]# ld /boot/
/boot/: file not recognized: Is a directory
[root@ariel ~]# ls /boot/
config-2.6.19-1.2911.fc6 System.map-2.6.19-1.2911.fc6
grub System.map-2.6.20.1
initrd-2.6.19-1.2911.fc6.img vmlinuz-2.6.19-1.2911.fc6
symvers-2.6.19-1.2911.fc6.gz vmlinuz-2.6.20.1


Machine is AMD athlon 64 3200+

Please help.

thanks

[Dies]

title kernel-2.6.20.1
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20.1 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet

Try that and if that doesn't help then go back and make sure support for your root filesystem is compiled into the kernel and not as a module.

[paralizer]

Still the same. I have also included every possible file system in the kernel compilation, and still the same.
I do not have this problem on my CentOS instalation.

Originally Posted by Dies

title kernel-2.6.20.1
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20.1 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet

Try that and if that doesn't help then go back and make sure support for your root filesystem is compiled into the kernel and not as a module.

[Seve]

Hello:
You could try and create a new initrd
mkinitrd -f /boot/initrd-2.6.20.1.img 2.6.20.1

Seve

[Dies]

Originally Posted by Seve

Hello:
You could try and create a new initrd
mkinitrd -f /boot/initrd-2.6.20.1.img 2.6.20.1

Seve

That's very interesting Seve, it will not boot a "vanilla" kernel without it. I never have to use one with other distros.

But in my case I got no errors, it says uncompressing the kernel then just reboots until I use an initrd then it loads up fine. weird.

[paralizer]

This fixed the problem. Thanks Seve.

paralizer

Originally Posted by Seve

Hello:
You could try and create a new initrd
mkinitrd -f /boot/initrd-2.6.20.1.img 2.6.20.1

Seve