Re: Fedora 2 won't boot

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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.



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