Axalon....thanks. The problem is I did exactly what you said to do (both
add the line [initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.9-19mdk] in lilo.conf and create an
initrd-2.2.9-19mdk in the /boot directory) and Linux still failed to boot
and hung with the same error message. RATS!! Any other ideas?
Alan
----- Original Message -----
From: Axalon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Newbie Linux-Mandrake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 1999 2:55 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Boot problems
>
> Check "man initrd" for more information then just about anyone could ask
> for. Basicly your booting from scsi, notice the initrd= on the floppy is
> missing from the harddisc. i suspect if you look in /boot/ you'll find a
> initrd-2.2.9-19mdk, add initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.9-19mdk if so. My guess is
> linuxconf rewrote lilo.conf posiblely looseing the line. If it is however
> not there you can create it with
> "mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.2.9-19mdk 2.2.9-19mdk"
>
> On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Alan Shoemaker wrote:
>
> > Hi....my system consists of two scsi drives. sda is dedicated to
Windows98 and has a single fat32 partition (sda1). sdb is dedicated to
Mandrake Linux 6.0 and has 3 partitions (sdb1 is /boot, sdb5 is swap and
sdb6 is /). Boot Magic is installed on the windows partition and boots
Windows properly. But when it boots lilo Linux appears at first to be
booting normally until the following error occurs:
> >
> > Partition check:
> > request-module[block-major-8]: Root fs not mounted
> > VFS: Cannot open root device 08:16
> > Kernal panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 08:16
> >
> > Then the system freezes. ctl-alt-del will reboot it. Linux boots just
fine with a floppy boot disc. The floppy boot disc's lilo.conf is:
> >
> > boot=/dev/fd0
> > timeout=100
> > message=/boot/message
> > prompt
> > image=/vmlinuz-2.2.9-19mdk
> > label=linux
> > root=/dev/sdb6
> > initrd=/initrd.img
> > image=/vmlinuz-2.2.9-19mdk
> > label=rescue
> > append="load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1"
> > root=/dev/fd0
> > initrd=/initrd.img
> >
> > The lilo conf in sdb6 /etc/lilo.conf is:
> >
> > boot=/dev/sdb1
> > map=/boot/map
> > install=/boot/boot.b
> > prompt
> > timeout=50
> > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.9-19mdk
> > label=linux
> > root=/dev/sdb6
> > read-only
> > other=/dev/sda1
> > label=dos
> > table=/dev/sda
> >
> > What is wrong, any ideas?
> >
> > Alan
> >
> >
>
