Re: [ProgSoc] 2.4.1 kernel

[arp <arp@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 04:15:52AM +1100, David Gonzalez wrote:
> At 02:30 AM 05/03/2001 +1100, arp wrote:
> >On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 04:02:30PM +1100, David Gonzalez wrote:
> > > Has anyone had any troubles upgrading from a RedHat 6.2 Linux 2.2.14-5.0
> > > kernel to a 2.4.1 kernel?  Anything I should need to know before I try?
> >
> >Yes. Upgrade pppd to the latest. An upgrade of modutils wouldn't go
> >astray either (if you're into those module thingies)
> 
> Thanks, I'll do that.  In the mean time I gave it a go and upon reboot, the 
> system was unable to mount my root partition and asked me to provide a 
> correct one at the "root=".  It is set root=/dev/hda6 but it won't 
> recognise it for some reason?  Anyone come across this before or can 
> hazzard a guess at what I should look at?

Are you using modules for ide/ext2 or are they compiled in? You might have
problems if they're modules as your ramdisk would contain the old module
code.

arp
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