On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 10:52:53 -0500
Dana Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Apologies for cross posting, but I'm kind of in a bind here.
>
> I upgraded our webserver which was running 7.1 to 8.0 yesterday. The
> upgrade itself seemed to go fine, but then the machine wouldn't boot on
> it's own - it stuck in "Loading linux....". I did some searching and
> finally got a lilo.conf that seemed to load fine when I did /sbin/lilo.
> When I tried to reboot, it goes into kernel panic. Here's what I get:
>
> Mounting root filesystem
> mount: error 6 mounting ext3
> pivotroot: prot_root (/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2
> umount /initrd/proc failed: 2
> kernel panic: No init found Try passing init: option to kernel
>
> I can still reboot just fine using the boot disk that was created when I
> did the upgrade. I'm heading back to google now to see what I can find.
> But if anyone has ideas, I would appreciate it.
Hi Dana,
The above error messages look like the root filesystem can
not be found. What is the lilo.conf file you're using, and what
drive/partition is your root filesystem on?
Sean.
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