Fedora Upgrade seems to have killed my RH 9 box

Matt Raible matt at raibledesigns.com
Wed Nov 19 18:26:27 UTC 2003


I tried to upgrade to Fedora Core 1 from Red Hat 9.  I experienced some 
issues with disk space 
(http://www.raibledesigns.com/comments/rd/sunsets/upgrading_to_fedora), 
and based on someone's advice, I deleted /tmp and created a symlink 
/tmp -> /home/tmp.  I did not have /home/tmp created when I tried to 
install Fedora.  It warned me about having a relative symlink during 
the upgrade, so I rebooted to undo the symlink.  I've rebooted a number 
of times since then, and did get in to rm /tmp and mkdir /tmp.  Now it 
appears I'm hosed - here's the message I get on startup:

Creating root device
mkrootdev: label / not found
Mounting root filesystem
mount: error 2 mounting ext3
pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2
umount /initrd/proc failed: 2
Freeing unused kernel memory: 132K freed
Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel
_ <- Flashing cursor

I removed some of the kernels last week, so don't know if this would 
cause any issues.  Any ideas on how to recover this sucker?

Thanks,

Matt
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