kernel panic on boot--need grub help

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Tue Nov 27 14:12:25 UTC 2007


Mohammed Omar wrote:
> hi,
> 
> In your menu.lst, I found:
> 
>   title           Fedora (2.6.23.1-42.fc8)
>   root            (hd1,0)      
>   kernel          /vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-42.fc8 ro root=/dev/sdb   //have
>   initrd   /initrd-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.img     
> savedefault
> boot
> 
> 
>>> root=/dev/sdb looks wrong... give correct root option, it might be
> root=/dev/sdb2   , as sdb1 is /boot partition u mentioned above  
> root (hd1,0). If u cannot find exact root=/dev/???, check /etc/fstab
> entry by going to grub> prompt. And initrd line is needed.
> 
> 
> --thanks
> omar
> 
If he used LVM, then it will probably be something like:

root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00

Mikkel
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