Dear Kind Folks, I was experimenting with an external USB hard drive and installed fedora 4 on it. I followed the advice given on some emails from this list. I must have screwed up somewhere. Upon running installation I selected linux expert nohd and ran diskdrake with /boot partition=100MB, linux-swap partition=768MB 2xRAM, and / partition rest of space. I selected all packages and made a complete install. The internel disk which original fedora was installed had several partitions and /boot/grub/grub.conf had root(hd0,2) and when I tried to boot it leaving USB connected it gave (hd1,0). I disconnected the USB drive and tried again. Upon reboot, I encounter the following message root(hd1,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel vmlinux-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x18e473] initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img [Linux-initrd @ 0x18de1f000c, 0x1a0e53 bytes] Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel. Red Hat Nash version 4.2.15 starting Reading all physical volumes this may take a while Found volume group "VolGroup00" using metadata type lvm2 2 logical volume(s) in Volume Group "VolumeGroup00" now active mkrootdev: label / not found mount: error 2 mounting ext3 ERROR opening /dev/console!!!!:2 error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 0 error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 1 error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 2 switchroot: mount failed: 22 kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! I popped in install cd and ran linux rescue to restore grub file using # chroot /mnt/sysimage but could not remember how to restore grub to boot original fedora installed on hard drive. Advice, suggestions, and comments are greatly appreciated. Also please give advice to make USB hard drive boot on its own to run on different computers taking the system wherever I go. I messed up somewhere and would like to rectify. Thanks in advance, Antonio __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail for Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail
