On Wednesday 29 September 2004 16:01, Ian L wrote: > At 02:20 PM 9/29/2004, you wrote: > >On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:54:49 -0700 > > > >Ian L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > I'm just having no luck at all with this. After it finished installing, > the boot process fails. The last few lines on the screen are: > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: unknown partition table > pivot_root: no such file > /sbin/init: 426: cannot open dev/console: no such file > kernel panic: attempted to kill init! > > i rebooted and was offered the choice to boot into recovery mode, but > that fails also with the same errors. > > Any suggestions? > > thanks, > > Ian
Apparently, your partition table is corrupt. What does it look like? What is each partition supposed to contain?
Justin Guerin
I only had 2 partitions. hda1 / 18 gigs ext3 hda2 swap 2 gig
Does it matter if i use grub or lilo? or install them into the mbr or hda1?
thanks
Ian
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