boot problems

Florian Idelberger florian at ipes-ent.com
Fri Sep 24 11:14:24 UTC 2004


Fred New wrote:
> On 24. september 2004. a. 12:16 Florian Idelberger wrote:
> 
>>So I booted into rescue, chrooted and created an entry in grub.conf 
>>which at least showed up. It something like:
>>title FedoraFC3Test2
>>      root (hd0,1)
>>      kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-1.541
>>      initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.8-1.541.img
>>
>>Linux resides on /dev/hda2, so I think the partitition is 
>>specified the right way, this being confirmed by a try to boot.
>>When trying to boot at first everything seems fine, the 
>>kernel is found and starts booting. Then when the mounting
>>and udev part comes, somehow the root filesystem can't get
>>mounted, and I get a kernel panic like: 
>>"Kernel Panic! Tried to kill init!"
> 
> 
> This is just a guess, but try adding a few parameters
> to the grub.conf kernel line:
> 
>     kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-1.541 ro root=/dev/hda2
> 
> Fred
> 
> 

Already tried that with exactly what you specified, but it didn't help.
The error didn't even change, it just stayed the same.
But anyway thanks for your response.





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