On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 15:47, Patrick Nelson wrote: > On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 12:25, Kellie Blackwell wrote: > > I had updated a RH7.3 machine to Fedora Core 2 which went OK but I was > > having network problems. I moved some IRQs around and now I can't boot > > my machine. > > > > Here are the error messages: > > > > ... > > Mounting root filesystem > > mount error 6 mounting ext3 > > pivotroot: pivot_root (/sysroot, /sysroot/initrd) failed:2 > > umount /initrd/proc failed: 2 > > Freeing unused kernel memory: 144K freed > > Kernel panic: no init found. Try passing init= option to kernel > > > > IIRC error 2 (from pivotroot) is "no such file" which makes sense if > > it can't mount the root filesystem, I can't remember what an error 6 > > is. > > Try booting off the rescue cd and check if /initrd directory exists. If > it doesn't create it with 755 permissions and root.root ownership. Then > try to boot normally. > If it does exist then the kernel isn't finding the /boot initrd-*.img file. Look into this for some more clues.
