Frederik Himpe wrote:
> On Sun, 2001-09-23 at 18:17, R.I.P. Deaddog wrote:
>
>>On 23 Sep 2001, Frederik Himpe wrote:
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>>>pivotroot: pivot_root (/sysroot, /sysroot/initrd) failed: 2
>>>Remounting devfs at coorect place if necessary
>>>Freeing unused kernel memory: 712k freed
>>>Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel
>>>
>>Yes, I had this problem too, even my machine only has a single Mandrake.
>>Tried to upgrade to kernel-2.4.8-2?mdk, all attempts to all kernel versions
>>are failure. Here are the relevant software versions (IMHO):
>>
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> I was able to solve this problem. I installed the latest util-linux,
> e2fsprogs, binutils, ran mkinitrd and lilo, and now this is OK. But now
> I have got another problem, a bit further. e2fsck complains that
> /dev/hda5 (root fs) is already mounted, so it cannot continue. Any
> ideas?
>
> Frederik Himpe
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you accidentally told lilo.conf to mount your root as rw, when it should
be ro.
