boot problems

[Florian Idelberger]

Mazli Alias wrote:
> 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)
> 
> 
Nay, that doesn't help either. This way round it doesn't even find the 
kernel image because hd(0,0) points to the fat32 partitition.
(as grub correctly points out) It would be very obscure if that would 
boot fedora, wouldn't it?
Nonetheless, thx for your efforts.