Fedora Upgrade seems to have killed my RH 9 box

Michael Schwendt ms-nospam-0306 at arcor.de
Wed Nov 19 19:09:34 UTC 2003


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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