f9 Preupgrade stalled?

[Dave Feustel]

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 11:52:58PM -0500, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 19:28 -0500, Dave Feustel wrote:
>>> On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 06:56:19PM -0500, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>>>> Dave Feustel wrote:
>>>>  > Well, I rebooted and the kermel panick. Here are the last few 
>>>> lines  before
>>>>> the system halted:
>>>>>
>>>>> 	Freeing unused kernel memory: 412K freed
>>>>> 	Write protecting the kernel text: 2732K
>>>>> 	Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 1176K
>>>>> 	Faild to execute /iniit
>>>>                          ^^^^^^
>>>>
>>>> Is this a typo?  Or does it really say /iniit?
>>> Typo. I didn't notice it until I got my posting back.
>>> There is no /init file/dir on my system which rebooted into F9
>>> when I reset it.
>>
>> It's /sbin/init by default (see bootparams(7)).
>
> And if it can't be found, maybe its because the grub bootloader couldn't  
> find the correct root partition?  Maybe some earlier messages would now  
> be helpful?

I have never done anything with grub. AFIK, I have only one boot
partition (unless preupgrade built another one on my single disk drive).
Could you explain this in more detail?

Thanks.