Re: Fedora Upgrade seems to have killed my RH 9 box

[Matt Raible <matt raibledesigns com>]

How do I get to a command line where I can execute this.  I tried 
"linux rescue", but all I get is:

You don't have any Linux partitions.  Press return to get a shell.  The 
sysem will reboot automatically when you exit from the shell.

I tried both the Fedora CD and RH 9 CD to "rescue" it.

In /sbin, all I have is:

init
insmod
loader
modprobe
rmmod
sh

Can I download e2label and run it from a floppy or something?

Thanks,

Matt

On Nov 19, 2003, at 12:09 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 11:26:27 -0700, Matt Raible wrote:
>
> > appears I'm hosed - here's the message I get on startup:
> >
> > Creating root device
> > mkrootdev: label / not found
>
> Find out which of your partitions is the root partition. Then
> run /sbin/e2label on it to see what the current label is.
> Afterwards run  /sbin/e2label /dev/hdWHATEVER /
> to create the '/' label on it.
>
> > Mounting root filesystem
> > mount: error 2 mounting ext3
> > pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2
> > umount /initrd/proc failed: 2
> > Freeing unused kernel memory: 132K freed
> > Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel
> > _ <- Flashing cursor
> >
> > I removed some of the kernels last week, so don't know if this would
> > cause any issues. ?Any ideas on how to recover this sucker?
>
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