On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 01:01 +0100, Jenz Nilsson wrote: > Hi guys! > > Im a newbie, and i have a problem (unusual isnt it ^^) > > I have installed FC4 on my external USB hard drive, and followed the > guide on http://www.vigla.eclipse.co.uk/ > > I have med three partitions, /boot, /, and swap. I have made mkinitrd > as told to in the guide, but i havent written any changes to > grub.conf, because i dont know how to do. Instead, as the guide told > me, i wrote what kernel and initrd to use directly in grub. When im > booting it up it says like > > Mounting root file system > mount: error 6 mounting ext3 > Switching to new root > 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 > unmounting old /proc > unmounting old /sys > switchroot: mount failed: 22 > Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! > > And then some very strange lines with like 01020x0213 blabla, if those > lines are important i can write them down. > > What can be the problem? Is it that i havent changed the grub.conf? Or > is it some kind of timing problem thati read about in the guide? > Please help me! I know you can > > //Jenz Is another operating system already install on your usb disk? Will fc4 be your only operating system on the usb disk? --gary
