INIT not starting

[Charles Curley]

On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 05:54:29PM -0700, patrick wrote:
> I'm trying to get FC4 running on this little box I have, and it gets as far 
> as:
> 
> unmounting old /proc
> unmounting old /sys
> 
> and then it just stops. The computer still lets me type things in, so
> I know it's still alive, but it never gets to the next step where it
> should say:
> 
> INIT: version 2.85 booting
> 
> When I take the hard drive out and put it in another computer, it works 
> fine.
> 
> I'm wondering if anyone can think of a reason why it would get stuck
> at this point instead of going onto INIT? Or better yet, how could I
> start debugging why it's getting stuck?

I suspect it is not finding the root partition, /. Are the BIOSes on
both machines using the same geometries, preferably LBA? And is the
drive set up to use the same geometry?

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