Karanbir Singh wrote:
Jerry Geis wrote:
I installed centos 4.6 on a USB thumbdrive. It installed and booted after install.
I then put a custom kernel on, build it as I should, on rebooting and selecting my kernel to load from grub I it starts up and all and the last error I get is:
label / not found.
What went wrong?
I'd guess your boot line has something like "root=LABEL=/" and you dont have a filesystem which is marked as label = /
To start, you could either label a filesystem as '/' or, you can just change that root= line to point at a real filesystem.
what WOULD be the 'real device' in the case of a USB thumbdrive? since its the boot device, would it necessarily be enumerated first, hence always /dev/sda ? or would it be after any other /dev/sd? that happen to be present on the system, which would mean that its device name is quite unpredictable?
OTOH, using LABEL=/ could be very problematic if there are any OTHER devices present with a filesystem that has LABEL=/ ... I'd wonder if you wouldn't want to use LABEL=USBROOT or some such (and label the USB stick accordingly).