On 05/05/23 18:49 +0530, Giridhar - Debian said ... > > [snip] > hda: Host Protected Area disabled. > hda: 78156288 sectors (40016 MB) w/1821KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100) > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4 < p5 p6 p7 p8 p9 p10 p11 p12 > p13 p14 p15 > > Kernel can not convert a name into desc number > Check your 'root=' argument passed on boot by bootloader. > initrd-tools: 0.1.80 > /sbin/init: 360: cannot open bin/root: no such file > umount: bin: not mounted > /sbin/init: 362: cannot create proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev: Directory non > existant > cat: proc/cmdline: No such file or directory > umount: proc not mounted > [snip]
I don't know the complete boot process and how initrd works, but I have included some more information related to the initrd.img in the and the above error messages: $ sudo mount /boot/initrd.img-2.6.11-1-686 -o loop /mnt/c $ pwd /mnt/c $ ls bin/root ls: bin/root: No such file or directory $ ls proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev ls: proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev: No such file or directory $ ls proc/cmdline ls: proc/cmdline: No such file or directory Giridhar -- Y Giridhar Appaji Nag | http://www.appaji.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
