Sometime Today, Sridhar M.A. assembled some asciibets to say:
> it can be mounted. So, I just commented out and ran lilo. No
> complaints now. But while booting it just stops and says,
>
> Kernel panic: I can't find a root and I want to scream.
Your kernel doesn't know where the root partition is (the partition
mounted on /). There are several options that you have.
- Getting access to your hard disk partitions
1. Boot from a linux floppy
2. Boot through the hard disk, and at the lilo prompt, enter
linux root=/dev/hdaX where hdaX is the root partition
you may have to guess this, and try over and
over until you succeed.
3. Use another system to look at your partitions
Once you have access to your hard disk, you need to find out which your
root partition is. If you used step 2, you already know this.
For step 1, use mount to figure out what is mounted on /
For step 3, use fdisk -l /dev/hd? where /dev/hd? is your hard disk
device
Once you've figured out which your root device is, edit /etc/lilo.conf
and set it there. (root = /dev/hdaX)
(If you've used step 3, then the partition device will change. ie, what
is hdc after using step 3, will be hda when used alone. Use hda in this
case)
--
"Being against torture ought to be sort of a multipartisan thing."
-- Karl Lehenbauer, as amended by Jeff Daiell, a Libertarian
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