----- Original Message ----- From: Marcos de Souza Trazzini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 25 Aug 2003 08:14:24 -0300 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: help - boot problems possibly from partition magic
> On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 05:24, richard yuwono wrote: > > 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. > Hello > I supposed that your "/boot" partition is under /dev/hda6 and your root > "/" partition is under /dev/hda7, and your kernel is inside the /boot, > named vmlinuz-2.4.21 in example, and your initrd is under > /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21.img. > Once the "GRUB>" prompt appears, you may type root (hd0,5) and type > [ENTER] key. > Now type "kernel=/vmlinuz-2.4.21 ro root=/dev/hda6" and press [ENTER] > Now, let's load the initrd image (if your sistem have one, normally > RedHat kernels uses this to pre-load the required modules to boot, and > not normally required on IDE-Ext2 systems). > type "initrd=/initrd-2.4.21.img" followed by the [ENTER] key. > And now, try to boot the system with the commando "boot", followed by > the [ENTER] key. <snip> thanks for the reply Marcos. this is what i tried at the grub prompt: > root (hd0,5) -- filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 > kernel=/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=/dev/hda6 -- [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0x11098a] > initrd=/initrd-2.4.20-8.img -- [Linux-initrd @ 0x1ffbb000, 0x24c6e bytes] > boot <after some messages, these are the final ones> EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot, /sysroot/initrd) failed: 2 umount /initd/proc failed:2 freeing unused kernel memory: 132k freed kernel panic: no init found. try passing init=option to kernel here is the contents after doing 'root hd(0,5)' : lost+found grub message.ja message config-2.4.20-8 boot.b chain.b os2_d.b module-info-2.4.20-8 System.map-2.4.20-8 vmlinuz System.map vmlinux-2.4.20-8 vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 module-info kernel.h initrd-2.4.20-8.img boot this means my boot partition is still in tact, right? maybe i am missing a small detail? thanks. 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
