2009/5/13 Barry Marchant <[email protected]> > I am trying to set up grub, 2 of the entries in /boot/grub/menu.1st > being... > > title linux-2008 > kernel (hd0,5)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux-2008 > root=UUID=21f45c8c-0029-4450-bc80-9c8de0584966 > append="resume=/dev/hda11" vga=788 > initrd (hd0,5)/boot/initrd.img > > > title linux-2007 > kernel (hd1,6)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux-2007 > root=UUID=6f1868a0-99b7-11db-96d0-cd1076410762 vga=788 > initrd (hd1,6)/boot/initrd.img > > The 1st entry boots no problems, the 2nd crashes with msgs > mount error 6 mounting ext3 flags default > pivotroot .... failed 2 > kernel panic not syncing no init found
It might just be that the system is telling you the truth when it says:- "no init found" Are you able to confirm the presence of the file (hd1,6)/boot/initrd.img ? Remember that grub starts counting from zero so you are looking for the file in the seventh partition of your slave drive. Possibly using your system rescue boot CD. mkdir /mnt/b7 mount /dev/hdb7 /mnt/b7 ls -l /mnt/b7/boot what happens? You should see something somewhat akin to this:- abi-2.6.27-11-generic memtest86+.bin abi-2.6.27-7-generic sarge.bmp abi-2.6.27-9-generic sid.bmp abi-2.6.28-11-generic System.map-2.6.27-11-generic coffee.bmp System.map-2.6.27-7-generic config-2.6.27-11-generic System.map-2.6.27-9-generic config-2.6.27-7-generic System.map-2.6.28-11-generic config-2.6.27-9-generic vmcoreinfo-2.6.27-11-generic config-2.6.28-11-generic vmcoreinfo-2.6.27-7-generic debian.bmp vmcoreinfo-2.6.27-9-generic debianlilo.bmp vmcoreinfo-2.6.28-11-generic grub vmlinuz-2.6.27-11-generic initrd.img-2.6.27-11-generic vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic initrd.img-2.6.27-7-generic vmlinuz-2.6.27-9-generic initrd.img-2.6.27-9-generic vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic This is from a much updated Ubuntu system, your Mandrivle ( ? ) will be different, yet similar. Make sure the initrd.img file and kernel file mentioned in the boot config file are from the same - identical - version, release and patch-level. TIA No problem, such civility wins the day. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
