--- grenoml <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well hi again! Hey Dave Balazic thanks for your comments on my > 'GRUB > hangs' post. Got a little bit better grip on GRUB now. > I been making attempts at getting one of my Linux machines to boot > from a /boot partition rather than from a boot directory on /. I > have > two hard drives: hdc (set as BIOS boot device) and hde (my / is > here). > I made and configured a /boot partition on hdc and it has all the > boot > files. I have my /boot/grub/grub.conf configured as follows: > > # grub.conf generated by anaconda > default=0 > timeout=10 > splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-14) > root (hd0,1) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=/dev/hde1 > initrd /initrd-2.4.18-14.img > title DOS > rootnoverify (hd0,0) > chainloader +1 > > I did a grub-install /dev/hdc and rebooted. Good thing is that I get > the GRUB splash menu. The bad thing is that I'm getting a kernel > panic > on mounting the root filesystem. Here are the boot messages: > > ... > Mounting /proc > (all the LVM stuff gets activated successfully - / is not under LVM > BTW) > Mounting root filesystem > kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds > EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. > pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2 > umount /initrd/proc failed: 2 > Freeing unused kernel memory: 212K freed > Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel > --- > > Tried passing init=/bin/sh to see if / was really there somehow - > no > dice. It looks as though it may have mounted the filesystem but then > pivotroot doesn't succeed for some reason. I've been working with > this > for a while without any luck so I thought I would post what I'm > seeing > in hopes that maybe someone might have some pointers for me. :-) > > > Regards, > Gerry Reno > >
Some followup. I was believing that perhaps the / ext3 journal might have been corrupted somehow so I removed the journal, changed the entry in /etc/fstab to ext2, crossed my fingers and rebooted but no luck - same errors. The odd thing is that the messages still showed it as trying to mount / as ext3. Isn't /etc/fstab controlling here? So I went back to rescue mode and used tune2fs to reinstall the journal and changed /etc/fstab back to ext3. I just can't see what this problem is with mounting root. In rescue mode the / partition is just fine and it gets mounted as ext3 under /mnt/sysimage. I can access all the files on it so it seems strange that it won't mount during the regular boot. Anyone seen this before? Thanks, Gerry Reno __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
