On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 00:22, Peter Davies wrote: > Hi all, > > Operating system Redhat 7.3 (2.4.18-3) > > The other day I installed a second hard drive (Maxtor 160GB). and new RAM to 1.256GB > > At first everything was alright (except for an fdisk error on partition not ending > on cylinder end for a fat32 prtition created in Windows 2000). > This morning linux would not boot, hanging at STARTING XFS. As the day progressed > and I tried to fix it things became worse. Now it wont boot at all with error > > > pivot root: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2 > freeing unused kernel memory : 280k freed > kernel panic : No init found. Try passing init = option to kernel. > > I can log in using rescue and # chroot /mnt/sysconfig > > I have repartitioned the new drive with linux fdisk to try to eliminate the disk > geometry probs. (it is presently unformatted) > > I have tried using lilo to boot instead of grub (i.e. made lilo.conf and ran lilo -v > -v) > > I have tried copying /sbin/init to /bin/init (not sure why I did this) > > I have tried running mkintrd -f -v --with=ext3 initrd-2.4.18-3.img 2.4.18-3 > > I have tried reinstalling Xfree86-xfs using the redhat 7.3 install with upgrade > option. > > I now turn in desparation to the fine minds that write to this list. >
When you log in from the rescue check for a directory /initrd with root.root and 755 permissions. This needs to mount temporarily while booting. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
