Erik Wanta wrote: > > Dell Lattitude LS > IBM 20 GB IC25N020ATCS05-0 HD > > I install RH 8.0. I create 2 partitions: > hda1 18G / > hda2 2G swap > > Everything seems to install correctly. I > reboot and get: > ... > Creating block devices > Creating root device > mkrootdev: label / not found > Mounting root filesystem > mount: error 2 mounting ext3 > pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot, > /sysroot/initrd) failed: 2 > umount /initrd/proc failed: 2 > Freeing unused memory: 212k freed > Kernel Panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to > kernel > > I reinstall and select default partitioning and get the > same result. > > Where I have been so far: > http://www.divisionbyzero.com/laptop/ > http://www.foottit.com/software/linux_on_latitude.html > http://www.met.ed.ac.uk/~hcp/lst.html > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/39578 > > http://linux.marxmeier.com/lvm_mlist/archive/2003/01/0039.html > http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/1/3/133839/6675 > http://www.computing.net/linux/wwwboard/forum/17830.html > > https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/ext3-users/2002-May/003580.html > > http://groups.google.com/groups?q=EXT3+Tina&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=gQ%25R9.48%2\ > > 4GU4.2724%40newsfep1-gui.server.ntli.net&rnum=1 > > http://www.kclug.org/old_archives/linux-activists/1992/mar/2/0171.shtml > > http://groups.google.com/groups?q=mount:+error+2+mounting+ext3+group:alt.os.linu\ > > x.*&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=pan.2002.11.28.04.24.55.653890%40diesel-research.com\ > > &rnum=2 > > http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22error+2+mounting%22+group:comp.os.linux.*&h\ > > l=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=1cf0b4c8.0212111527.1ec7e5b3%40posting.google.com&rnum=1 > > Note that LILO works without issue and is what I ended up using.
Post your lilo.conf and grub.conf. >From the error message it seems that the root file system has no label. Check by running "e2label /dev/hda1" and post us what it prints. -- David Balazic -------------- "Be excellent to each other." - Bill S. Preston, Esq., & "Ted" Theodore Logan - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
