* On [22 Aug 2005 21:53 +0300] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But when I boot up now, the kernel gives several errors while
> attempting to "access beyond end of device" on sda4, unable to read
> superblock. Then it says Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to
> mount rootfs on unknown block(8,4)
> Why is the kernel still attempting to access sda4, which is now an
> extended partition table?
> Grub knows to look on (hd0,5) (i.e. /dev/sda6) and finds the kernel
> there, so I don't understand why the kernel itself is looking for
> sda4.
Does bypassing the grub menu and booting manually work, i.e.
grub> root (hd0,5)
grub> kernel /boot/kernel-name root=/dev/sda6
grub> boot
Tarek.
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