AW: FC5 new install - using lilo - kernel panic

joe at illegal-access.de joe at illegal-access.de
Wed Jun 21 10:49:42 UTC 2006


Give us the output of "fdisk -l", please.

cu,
Joe

>i installed FC5 on a computer that already had lilo as a bootloader. i
>thought i entered the right options in lilo.etc on the main system,
>but i get a kernel panic when FC5 tries to boot. lilo runs without
>errors. can anyone help me sort out what might be wrong? i'm new to
>fedora and i'm not sure what i might be overlooking. i have arch linux
>on /dev/hda1, and fedora is on /dev/hda6. the lilo entries look like
>this:
>
>### Begin Linux Kernel Section ###
>
>image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16.20
>        label=arch-2.6.16.20
>        root=/dev/hda1
>        read-only
>        append="video=matroxfb:vesa:0x18C"
>
>image=/mnt/hda6/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5
>        initrd=/mnt/hda6/boot/initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.img
>        label=Fedora_5
>        root=/dev/hda6
>        read-only
>        append="video=matroxfb:vesa:0x18C"
>
>
>
>thank you
>
>-sc
>
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