On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 11:26, Von Fugal wrote: > > booting Mandrake but gets to a point where it says: > > > > Mounting /proc filesystem > > Creating root device > > Mounting root device > > mount: error 6 mounting ext3 flags defaults > > ... (tries mount read-only and mount read-only with some other option) > > pivot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) > > no init found, try passing init= to your kernel (I think I'm > > paraphrasing again here) > > I don't know what the error is here, but the problem is that it wasn't > mounted, and not finding init was merely a symptom of that. If you fix the > mounting problem, then the rest should follow. You might try adding > hdd=ide-scsi to the kernel parameters (from lilo.conf below), if that > doesn't fix it.... maybe someone else has some ideas.
It has the hdd=ide-scsi parameter. It seems really weird that it can't mount the partition because I can mount it from within Redhat, and if I use the nifty grub tab-completion it can read the partition and tell me what possible completions are for kernel and initrd...frustrating. Bryan ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
