Desperate situation
Mikkel L. Ellertson
mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Fri Feb 10 18:04:11 UTC 2006
Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Friday 10 February 2006 17:12, Mike McCarty wrote:
>
>>Tell you what, if you decide to toss the disc, how about mailing
>>it to me instead? I'll pay postage and throw in a few $$$ for
>>your time. :-)
>>
>
> :-) I'm really hoping that I don't need to. Meanwhile, I now have a
> situation that leaves me utterly confused.
>
> I've installed FC4 to the master drive. All went well until the Reboot. Then
> it attempted to launch Mandriva - it reports a kernel panic because it can't
> find init.
>
> I was going to change that box onto FC4 within the next few days anyway, so I
> don't want to recover Mandriva, only the data. It appears that lilo is
> suddenly working!
>
> Question - why is it trying to boot from hdb, rather than hda, where FC4 is?
> What can I do about it?
>
> Anne
>
Are you using volume labels? If so, it may be using the wrong
partitions because you have the same label on both drives.
Mikkel
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