----- Original Message -----
From: Civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, December 04, 1999 12:46 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] root partition
> Sridhar G wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I had trashed my root partition, and now unable to boot my system.
> >
> > My root partition was hda11 and SWAP hda10. I removed hda10 so that I
could
> > expand my root partition.
> >
> > When I boot the kernel cannot mount my root partition.
> >
> > Can I pass any parameters to LILO to select any other partition as root?
> >
> > Is it possible to recover my root partition intact?
> >
> > I tried to use my rescue disk, but to no avail.
> >
> > Please advive me what to do?
> >
> > Thanks for ur help
> >
> > Cheers
> > Sridhar
>
> finish your repartitioning, then reinstall *without* formatting any
partitions
> except root and swap
>
> THen send me email when you are done and I'll send you my own HOWTO on
> partitions
>
> Civileme
>
>
When I boot with rescue disk, it reports kernel panic reporting "kernel
panic No init found, try passing init= option to kernel"
So what are the options and how to pass them to kernel.
Cheers
Sridhar
