boot problems

Fred New Fred.New at microlink.ee
Fri Sep 24 09:30:55 UTC 2004


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





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