On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Tim <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I tried using grub to attempt to boot. I set up the following based on > (1) > > what I saw using the knoppix disk that the internal drives were mounted > on > > /media/sda5 and /media/sdb1...../media/sda5 has the normal linux file > system > > and sdb1 has my backup folders, and (2) grub's tab completion. > > > > grub> root (hd0,4) > > grub> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-1-686 root =/dev/sda5 > > grub> initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.26-1-686 > > grub> boot > > > > I get as far as: > > Kernel panic: not syncing: VFS unable to mount rootfs on unknown > block(0,0) > > > Ok, so it sounds like grub is finding your root partition fine, but > the kernel isn't. I see above that you indicated you are specifying a > 2.6.21 kernel and a 2.6.26 initrd image. That is most likely not > going to work. Have you tried setting those version numbers the same > on any of the alternative kernels you've tried? > Sorry, that was a typo in the email. When typing at grub I used completion to make sure I had the same versions. Mark > > tim > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
