Aron Smith wrote:
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 05:28 pm, Aron Smith wrote:The problem looks like the root directory is not on the device specified during installation. Let me guess - when you did the install, this drive was not /dev/hda, and now it is. You are going to have to make a couple of changes to make it work. Unless someone has the answers handy, I will have to do a bit of research in the monring, but basicly what you have to do is change the root devices passed to the kernel from /dev/hd?# to /dev/hda# where # is the partition number, and stays the same - only the drive "letter" changes. You will also want to specify "init=/bin/bash" for this boot, untill you can edit /etc/fstab to reflect the changed drive. You will also have to edit /etc/lilo.conf and change the root drive specified there. Make sure you run lilo after making the change, so that the changes take effect. There is a way to do it by putting the drive back in the other machne, but that probably would be just as hard.
I have an old Compaq Armada here with no CD-ROM by removing the HDD (6Gb)Some more information this is the screen output
and u7sing an adapter I was able to install ? Mdk 10.1 on the drive.
After reinstalling the drive I find that I have a problem
Kernel panic : No init found Try passingi nit= optionn to kernel
So what do I do now (oboviously I have reached my level of incompentance
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md..autorun Done RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) Red Hat nash version 4.1.12mdk starting Loading jbd.ko module loading ext3.ko module Mounting /proc filesystem Mounting sysfs Creating device files mounting tmpfs on /dev starting udev Creating root device Mounting root filesystem mount: error6 mounting ext3 flags defaults well, retrying without theoption flags mount: error 6 mounting ext3 well, retrying readonly without anyflag mount : error 6mounting ext3 picvotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,sysroot/intrid) failed:2 umount /intrid/sysfailed :2 umount /intrid/proc failed :2 intrid finished Freeing unused kernel memory : 200k freed Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel
One other way would be to get one of the floppy distributions, boot off of it, and go in and make the changes.
Mikkel --
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