I was finally able to get lilo working again, but kernel panics (image 2.6.8-1-k7)
VFS: Cannot open root device "301" or unknown-block(3,1) Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,1) I have no idea what this means, but this is as close as I've come to getting this resolved. in my lilo.conf, I have boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hda1 What I did was this: Booting to knoppix cd, I was able to mount all of my partitions, then I did chroot to my hda1 partition. doing this was able to do apt-get install --reinstall kernel-image-2.6.8-1-k7 (I still have the .deb in my apt cache) and it did go thru the install and it asked me all kinds of lilo questions. It created a new lilo.conf which looks drammitacally different (it only hase one image= defined) but for some reason I still get my old lilo boot menu as if it were getting it from somewhere else! Being fed up with this, I did apt-get remove lilo and did apt-get install grub when that was done I did grub-install /dev/hda. I rebooted and I got the grub prompt: grub> so I did grub> kernel /vmlinuz (vmlinuz is symlink to kernel-2.6.7-1-k7) grub> initrd /initrd.img grub> root (grub uses (hd0,0) ) grub> boot the kernel begins to boot and it gets to a new and completely different kernel panic: pivot_root: No such file or directory /sbin/init: 426: connot open dev/console: No such file Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! This really should not be this difficult. Either lilo or grub should be working. The kernel should work. What am I missing? Jim __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]