Hi there, First a bit of background...
I've been having problems playing DVD's on my pc (Mandrake 10, 1GB RAM, AthlonXP 2.4MHz, nVidia GeForce2 MX400). Not crucial, I just wanted to see if I could. I've tried Xine and Kaffeine, and usually I just get a green window with intermittent sound, or random garbage, and eventually a dialog box telling me that too many frames are being dropped.
So I thought "I know, I'll try installing the latest nVidia driver and see if that speeds things up". I check the nVidia website, download the driver, RTFM, and there are references to installing the kernel source. My existing kernel is 2.6.3-7. Then I think "why not update the kernel as well, just for the hell of it". You can see where this is going, can't you...
I get the kernel ("kernel-2.6.8.1.24mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm") and install that. I update my "/etc/lilo.conf" file as per the instructions, and run "lilo -v". Upon rebooting and selecting the new kernel I get the following messages:
<snip> Creating device files Creating root device Mounting root filesystem with flags notail mount: error 6 mounting reiserfs flags notail well, retrying without the option flags mount: error 6 mounting reiserfs well, retrying read-only without any flag mount: error 6 mounting reiserfs pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2 umount /initrd/sys failed: 2 umount /initrd/sys failed: 2 initrd finished Mounted devfs on /dev Freeing unused kernel memory: 200k freed Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. =============================
My / and /home partitions are Reiserfs. From what I've read via Google, it seems possible that the new kernel doesn't have Reiserfs support enabled. Does this sound plausible ? What's the best way to tell ? If so, what's the best way to correct it ?
I can boot with the previous kernel quite happily, so it's not the end of the world.
Here's the contents of my "/etc/lilo.conf" file if it helps: ============================= # File generated by DrakX/drakboot # WARNING: do not forget to run lilo after modifying this file
default="linux"
boot=/dev/hde
map=/boot/map
keytable=/boot/us.klt
prompt
nowarn
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80
image=/boot/vmlinuz-i686-up-4GB
label="linux-i686-up-4GB"
root=/dev/hde1
initrd=/boot/initrd-i686-up-4GB.img
append="devfs=mount resume=/dev/hde5 splash=silent mem=1024M"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.3-7mdk
label="263-7"
root=/dev/hde1
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.3-7mdk.img
append="devfs=mount resume=/dev/hde5 splash=silent mem=1024M"
read-only
other=/dev/fd0
label="floppy"
unsafe
other=/dev/hde3
label="windows"
image=/boot/win4lin
label="win4lin"
root=/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
append="devfs=mount resume=/dev/hde5 splash=silent mem=1024M reboot=warm"
vga=788
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.3-7mdk-i686-up-4GB
label="263i686up4G-7"
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.3-7mdk-i686-up-4GB.img
append="devfs=mount resume=/dev/hde5 splash=silent mem=1024M reboot=warm"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.3-7mdk
label="263-7-2005-5-5"
root=/dev/hde1
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.3-7mdk.img
append="devfs=mount resume=/dev/hde5 splash=silent mem=1024M reboot=warm"
vga=788
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux"
root=/dev/hde1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=mount resume=/dev/hde5 splash=silent mem=1024M reboot=warm"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.3-7mdk-i686-up-4GB
label="alt_263i686up4G-7"
root=/dev/hde1
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.3-7mdk-i686-up-4GB.img
append="devfs=mount resume=/dev/hde5 splash=silent mem=1024M reboot=warm"
vga=788
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8.1-24mdk
label="2681-24"
root=/dev/hde1
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.8.1-24mdk.img
append="devfs=mount resume=/dev/hde5 splash=silent mem=1024M reboot=warm"
read-only
=============================
Thanks, David
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