On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 04:04:40PM +0100, Frank Thommen wrote: > > This give a slightly different error message: > > [...] > md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. > md: autorun ... > md: ... autorun DONE. > VFS: Cannot open root device "<NULL>" or unknown-block(253,3) > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on > unknown-block(253,3) > > > The two "RAMDISK" error lines have gone. I have archived > modules/modules.cgz *and* initrd.img with "-H newc". only the initrd needs "-H newc" This one works for me LABEL centos5 MENU LABEL ^1) centos 5 x86_64 raid1 ks KERNEL centos5.x86_64/vmlinuz APPEND initrd=centos5.x86_64/initrd.img method=http://10.0.0.4/pub/linux/c5/os/x86_64 noipv6 syslog=10.0.0.4 kssendmac ip=dhcp ks=http://10.0.0.4/ks/c5-raid1-64-min.cfg Tru -- Tru Huynh (mirrors, CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090327/74f795a8/attachment-0005.sig>