Re: Can't boot from bootdisk! Please help!

["Taylor, ForrestX" <forrestx taylor intel com>]

Behrouz Bayat wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I installed RH 7.3 on my system, and I already have
> Win XP installed. The installation went fine, except
> for one thing during the partitioning. It said that
> the boot partition I created might not work correctly
> (I don't remember the exact message) and that I really
> should create a boot disk. Fine, I did that.
>
>  Now I'm trying to get into RH using the bootdisk I
> created, and I get a whole bunch of error messages:
>
> VFS: can't find ext3 filesystem on dev ide0(3,3)
> mount: error 22 mounting ext3
> pivotroot: pivot_root (/sysroot, /sysroot/initrd)
> failed: 2
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 280k freed.
> Kernal Panic: No init found. Try passing init= option
> to kernel.
>
> Is there any way for me to get linux to boot? Can I
> use the "linux rescue" option from the installation CD
> somehow? I really don't want to format and reinstall
> again...

Yes, you should be able to use the rescue mode to save your 
installation.  First, we need some more information.  What partitions 
did you make (/, /boot, /home, etc.), and where are they (/dev/hda3, 
hda5, etc.)?  Are you using RAID or LVM?  What size is your disk, and 
what sizes are your paritions, including the Windows partition?

Forrest
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