On Sunday 06 July 2003 10:42 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > On Sunday 06 July 2003 14:04, Johan Scheepers wrote: > > Hi, > > This is for experimentation. > > Setup : > > 2 HD's - hde & hdg > > .Mdk9.0 on second HD - hdg6 > > Remove drive one. > > Using GRUB bootdisk - booting hdg6 which is now changed to hde6. > > Before this (after file backup) I edited the fstab that the references to > > the previous partiton hdg6 now is hde6.(Wel I think it should be hde - I > > have no way to find out- no system running) > > When booting I edit the references in this menu-option to refer to > > (hd0,5) & hde6. > > It boots fine untill it displays : kernel panic . No init found. Try > > passing init=options to kernel. > > Ok if all is normal this line should read INIT : version xxx > > Well even before this some other errors creep in - like from mounting > > reiserfs it becomes a lot of errors.(If mounting failed then no file can > > be found?) > > OK this is absolutely new ground to me - know nothing about kernel > > parrams/etc. > > When this happened the first time I did the fstab changes hoping this wil > > trick the kernel. (ha-ha). > > System search revealed several int files/directories several places. > > Cat the one in /etc/sysconfig/init refers to colors and some stuff but no > > partition. > > When does fstab come in while booting. > > I also tried mapping but only one drive - map to what?. > > It is easy to trick DOS. It seems that a lot more or not possible to > > trick linux. > > Maybe there is to much involved that makes linux "drive and partition" > > specific. > > If this means a major overhaul it will not be worth the effort. Like a > > new install or whatever if this situation arises. > > Please what else need be edited or whatever to make this work?. > > Maybe I am expecting to much? > > Johan > > > > May this be a good day for learning > > Could it be that GRUB is looking for the /boot (initrd and vmlinuz) > directory that was on the drive you removed? > It is actually more likely that it is looking for itself on hdg, which doesn't exist anymore, because it exists now as hde. boot to rescue mode and try to find a /boot/grub/install.sh script. Review it and make sure everything is pointed at the right place, edit as necessary, and then run it with './install.sh'
This should repoint grub at all the correct locations. -- /g "Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read" -Groucho Marx
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