Redhat 9 Boot error

[dwilko]

Hi

I am getting this error when redhat boots up

Creating Root device
mkrootdev: label / not found
mounting root filesystem
mount error 2 mounting ext3
privotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) Failed 2
umont /initrd/proc failed: 2
freeimg unused kernel memory: 156k freed
kernel panic: No Init Found. Try passing init= option to kernel

Its a Free install of redhat

Can Anyone help to get it working?


Thanks

David


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[xmb]

Its just a guess.. boot up rh from CD and run mkfs.ext3 -S -L / <root_device>
after that run fsck over it

or, while booted from CD, edit /etc/lilo.conf.. remove the references to '/' as root device, instead use root=/dev/hda1, just your root_device

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[dwilko]

ok thanks will try that when I get home

mkfs.ext3 -S -L / <root_device>
^^ wont that make a file system ext3 on the drive if so then do i still need to do it cos I allready have a ext3 file system on the hard drive



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[xmb]

It would write superblock and group descriptors only, without touching the inode table, where the files are 'registered'.

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