[CentOS] kernel 2.6.9-42.0.8.EL error while booting - CentOS 4.4

John R Pierce wrote:
> Indunil Jayasooriya wrote:
>> I think as a work around you can change the grub.conf to use the
>> /dev/xxx instead of the disk label.
>>
>>
>> i did changes it to as follows
>>
>> kernel /vmlinuz-whatever root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
>> ....change it to.....
>> kernel /vmlinuz-whatever root=/dev/sda2 rhgb quiet
>>
>>
>> but still the same thibg appears.
> 
> also fix /etc/fstab
> 

He cannot even get to that stage. His initrd image must be missing some 
essential drivers.