Weird Boot failure

2004-01-27 Thread Robert E. Harvey, M.D.
I've just installed Slackware 9.1 and would like to use Grub 0.94 to boot to it and other OSs. I get a kernel panic with the following maneuvers: root (hd0,1) #no problem. The file system is correctly identified kernel /vmlinuz-ide-2.4.22 root=/dev/sda5 ro hdc=ide-scsi# no problem. the

gentoo 1.4 boot hang with grub

2003-11-09 Thread Robert E. Harvey, M.D.
Hello, I have installed Gentoo 1.4 and am trying to use grub as the boot loader. I have my root file system (/dev/sda3) set up as reiserfs. my grub commands are as follows: root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage root=/dev/sda3 initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd-2.4.20-gentoo-r8 boot The boot process

Gnu Grub Manual

2001-11-15 Thread Robert E. Harvey
Would someone kindly point me toward the GRUB manual? Thanks. Bob Harvey ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub

Grub boot fails

2001-11-10 Thread Robert E. Harvey, M.D.
Hello folks. I've successfully made my grub boot disk but booting my system fails at the following point: request_module [block-major-8]: Root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device "sda5" or 08:05 Please append a correct "root=" boot option I'm running a Red Hat 7.1 system with 2 SCSI HDDs