boot problems

[Mazli Alias]

Florian Idelberger wrote:

> Fred New wrote:
>
>> On 24. september 2004. a. 12:16 Florian Idelberger wrote:
>>
>>> So I booted into rescue, chrooted and created an entry in grub.conf 
>>> which at least showed up. It something like:
>>> title FedoraFC3Test2
>>>      root (hd0,1)
>>>      kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-1.541
>>>      initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.8-1.541.img
>>>
>>> Linux resides on /dev/hda2, so I think the partitition is specified 
>>> the right way, this being confirmed by a try to boot.
>>> When trying to boot at first everything seems fine, the kernel is 
>>> found and starts booting. Then when the mounting
>>> and udev part comes, somehow the root filesystem can't get
>>> mounted, and I get a kernel panic like: "Kernel Panic! Tried to kill 
>>> init!"
>>
>>
>>
>> This is just a guess, but try adding a few parameters
>> to the grub.conf kernel line:
>>
>>     kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-1.541 ro root=/dev/hda2
>>
>> Fred
>>
>>
>
> Already tried that with exactly what you specified, but it didn't help.
> The error didn't even change, it just stayed the same.
> But anyway thanks for your response.
>
>
try root (hd0,0)