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

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam Trinity Edu>]

On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 12:03:30PM -0500, 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...
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Behrouz Bayat.
Switching to grub is ok but your erro messages seem to indicate that your
initrd (ram disk) in the /boot directory is misconfigured. Also under
lilo you should use the lba32 option. I don't know what the needs to be
done that is equivalent. The message that the boot partition might not
work correctly has to do with a limitation in native BIOS to not be able
to boot beyond cylinder 1024 which you need to do. lba32 takes care of
that,
Do a man mkinitrd to see how that is done.

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