| yacoubean 2004-01-23, 7:25 pm |
| I've spent hours and hours searching the web and news groups, and still
haven't licked this one.
Specs:
RH9
Kernel: 2.4.20-8
FIC AN19C Mobo
Athlon XP 1700+
256 MB RAM
10 Gig 5400 RPM IDE
Dual boot w/ Windows XP
XP on /dev/hda
RH9 on /dev/hdc1
I've got my WinXP controlling the MBR on /dev/hda, and it correctly
passes control to LILO. LILO boots, but RH crashes early in the boot
with "Error 6 mounting ext3" and then "kernel panic, no init found". I
CAN boot the system fine using the RH9 Emergency boot disk. I'd like to
get my boot record working because that boot disk is to stinking slow! 
I've researched the 'no init found' tons, and people say you get this
error with any boot problems. I think the real problem lies in the
first error. To elaborate:
I do have /initrd, and I do have /sbin/init. I've run fsck from
single-user mode on /dev/hdc1, no errors, reports clean.
I've reinstalled LILO about 575 times, and installed GRUB about 453
times. Each time I reinstall, I do the dd command to get a new boot
image, and dump that in XP so that XP knows what's going on. None of
this has helped.
The weird thing I've noticed is when I run fdisk -l /dev/hdc1:
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Disk /dev/hdc1: 9722 MB, 9722248704 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1181 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
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No partition information is displayed! This drive has / taking the
whole thing (only one partition, / ). Is that why it doesn't show
partition info? Not sure if that's part of my problem, but I'd think it
should at least display the one partition I have.
Thanks in advance for any help.
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yacoubean
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