Maybe the kernel you're trying to boot doesn't have the appropriate filesystem compiled in.
/* Quoth Bryan Murdock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, 9 Dec 2003 at 21:59 -0800 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> */ > On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 11:26, Von Fugal wrote: > > > booting Mandrake but gets to a point where it says: > > > > > > Mounting /proc filesystem > > > Creating root device > > > Mounting root device > > > mount: error 6 mounting ext3 flags defaults > > > ... (tries mount read-only and mount read-only with some other option) > > > pivot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) > > > no init found, try passing init= to your kernel (I think I'm > > > paraphrasing again here) > > > > I don't know what the error is here, but the problem is that it wasn't > > mounted, and not finding init was merely a symptom of that. If you fix the > > mounting problem, then the rest should follow. You might try adding > > hdd=ide-scsi to the kernel parameters (from lilo.conf below), if that > > doesn't fix it.... maybe someone else has some ideas. > > It has the hdd=ide-scsi parameter. It seems really weird that it can't > mount the partition because I can mount it from within Redhat, and if I > use the nifty grub tab-completion it can read the partition and tell me > what possible completions are for kernel and initrd...frustrating. > > Bryan > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > -- Hans Fugal | De gustibus non disputandum est. http://hans.fugal.net/ | Debian, vim, mutt, ruby, text, gpg http://gdmxml.fugal.net/ | WindowMaker, gaim, UTF-8, RISC, JS Bach --------------------------------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 6940 87C5 6610 567F 1E95 CB5E FC98 E8CD E0AA D460
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