On Sunday 06 July 2003 14:04, Johan Scheepers wrote: > Hi, > This is for experimentation. > Setup : > 2 HD's - hde & hdg > .Mdk9.0 on second HD - hdg6 > Remove drive one. > Using GRUB bootdisk - booting hdg6 which is now changed to hde6. > Before this (after file backup) I edited the fstab that the references to > the previous partiton hdg6 now is hde6.(Wel I think it should be hde - I > have no way to find out- no system running) > When booting I edit the references in this menu-option to refer to (hd0,5) > & hde6. > It boots fine untill it displays : kernel panic . No init found. Try > passing init=options to kernel. > Ok if all is normal this line should read INIT : version xxx > Well even before this some other errors creep in - like from mounting > reiserfs it becomes a lot of errors.(If mounting failed then no file can be > found?) > OK this is absolutely new ground to me - know nothing about kernel > parrams/etc. > When this happened the first time I did the fstab changes hoping this wil > trick the kernel. (ha-ha). > System search revealed several int files/directories several places. > Cat the one in /etc/sysconfig/init refers to colors and some stuff but no > partition. > When does fstab come in while booting. > I also tried mapping but only one drive - map to what?. > It is easy to trick DOS. It seems that a lot more or not possible to trick > linux. > Maybe there is to much involved that makes linux "drive and partition" > specific. > If this means a major overhaul it will not be worth the effort. Like a new > install or whatever if this situation arises. > Please what else need be edited or whatever to make this work?. > Maybe I am expecting to much? > Johan > > May this be a good day for learning
Could it be that GRUB is looking for the /boot (initrd and vmlinuz) directory that was on the drive you removed? Good luck, HarM
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