on 6-6-2008 12:33 PM Jerry Geis spake the following: > Hi all, > > > I am soo close. I have have made my custom kernel from a DIFFERENT machine, > I have hte USB booting, I have 3 partitions, 1-fat12, 2 - ext3, 3 is swap. > on booting it says: > > VFS cannot open root device NULL please append root= > > I tried root=/dev/sda2 and still nothing. > > Is there something about building a kernel on one machine and then > taking that > to another machine with different disk structure and it not booting??? > What do you do in that case? > > I think - hope - this is my last step to get past... > > jerry You have to make sure that your initrd made on the other machine has drivers for the usb storage loaded. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 258 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080606/f5f11924/attachment-0005.sig>