On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 12:13:50PM +0530, Philip S Tellis wrote:
> 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.
I think you missed some things I had written. With new hard disk in my
machine, I boot using a cd (from linuxcare; good tool). Again running
lilo was a problem. The lilo.conf properly shows where to find the root.
>
> - 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)
>
All this has been done even before I mailed my problem :-(
I am still looking for any solutions.
Regards,
--
Sridhar M.A. mas at uomphysics dot net
PL/I -- "the fatal disease" -- belongs more to the problem set than to the
solution set.
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 17, Number 5
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