----- Original Message ----- From: Marc Resnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, February 9, 2004 4:12 pm Subject: [newbie] Help! Linux won't boot! Someone experienced in partitions and hard drives !
> Okay here's what I did this time. Partition Magic wouldn't resize > my Linux partition, and I needed more space. So I created a FAT32 > partition for some extra storage. Everything went fine creating > it. I restarted, and tried to boot Linux, but I got a Linux Ext2 > mounting error. It said there was a Kernel Panic Error(which > sounds pretty pad) and I should try passing intrd= into the > kernel, or something like that. So then I figured I'd delete the > partition, cause maybe linux wasn't recognizing it, then I'd > create it through Linux. So I go into PM in Windows, and it won't > delete it because it's an 'unrecognized format'. There were no > errors it picked up though. So then I tried formatting it to NTFS, > thinking it might recognize that. I formatted it, tried deleting > it, and I got the same error. Any ideas on what I should do? > > Quick answer would be nice, > Marc > Okay so I tried again, and I found that the message is "Try passing init= option to kernel." So at Lilo, I press esc. I typed linux init=/dev/hda7. Then I tried /dev/hda5. Then I tried hda5 and hda7. In case you haven't figured it out yet, my Linux partition is hda5, my root partition is hda7(I think). I have no boot disk, because I have no floppy drive, so no solution there. Anyone have any ideas?
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