--- Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 diskdrake should be disk druid. Not to be mistaken for Mandrake/Mandriva's partition utility. Sorry for the mistake/typo, I did not make a volume group and disabled SELinux. > 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 > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
