hi, i had rh 9.0 and win2k running nicely on my box at home and recently i installed partition magic 8.0. after rebooting the grub splash screen no longer came up, but instead i got a grub prompt. i tried a boot disk which got a bit further but gave me "kernel panic: no init found".
needing _any_ system, i did the only thing i knew how and got a windows recovery console and did a 'fixmbr'. after googling my problem i tried to re-install grub which got me back to the prompt. when i tried 'kernel (hd0,5)/vmlinuz' followed by 'boot' after some statements i get: VFS: cannot open root device "" or 48:05 please append a correct "root=" boot option kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 48:05 according to grub i've got the following on hd0: partition no. | fs type | partition type ---------------------------------------- 0 fat 0xc 4 fat 0xb 5 ext2fs 0x83 6 ext2fs 0x83 7 unknown 0x82 8 fat 0x6 i kinda recall making the same mistake thomas kerstan made (https://listman.redhat.com/archives/ext3-users/2002-May/msg00055.html) when i had PM 6.0: I unfortunate did not note the error > > at the time. it was something like "CHS and LBA block > > count do not match. lba is calculated as correct. fix > > this error" to which I mistakenly said yes. i dont know if this had a role to play in my problem? hopefully someone could please tell me what's going on here and how to fix this problem? thanks in advance. rich. -- _______________________________________________ Get your free email from http://www.outgun.com Powered by Outblaze -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
