On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 07:15 +0000, Colin Paul Adams wrote: > assumptions, assumptions.... > NOW Murphy is kicking good and proper. Here are the last few messages > from the console: > > Mounting root filesystem. > EXT3-fs: unable to read superblock > mount: error 22 mounting ext3 > pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2 > umount /initrd/proc failed: 2 > Freeing unused kernel memory: 168k freed > Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. > Looking at the bright side, at least the kernel was loaded from the /boot partition. ;) I can think of 3 likely causes: 1) root parameter on kernel line is pointing to the wrong partition 2) initrd points to a different version than the kernel version 3) your / partition is at least partially corrupt > I tried the above with two different kernels (there's 4 or 5 installed > - all FC1). > Now, I mentioned before that I was able to mount the root file system on my > other computer OK, so I'm rather puzzled by the failure to find the > superblock. > > Is there anything I can do at this stage? Try modifying the root= parameter of grub's kernel config. If you did a stock FC1 install, try root=LABEL=/. Otherwise, just try root=/dev/hda1 through root=/dev/hda5. One of them has to work! This should not cause any harm to the drive since nothing will be mounted read/write until your / partition is properly specified. If this still does not work, you might try Toms root/boot: http://www.toms.net/rb/ This floppy contains fdisk, vi, etc. and will allow you to explore the drive to locate the / partition and edit /boot/grub/grub.conf. While there, also verify that /boot/grub/menu.lst links to /boot/grub/grub.conf. Kevin Freeman
