From: ianj@citrus.SAC.CA.US ( Ian Justman ) Subject: Re: 0.99pl? won't boot from the hard disk Date: 29 Jan 1993 12:53:49 GMT
I1041301@dbstu1.rz.tu-bs.de (Mike Dowling) writes:
: When I upgraded 0.98pl4 to 0.99pl3 on my now somewhat aging 386
: computer, the kernl compiled well enough, but I had a kernel panic when
: I tried to boot from the hard disk. LILO started all right, and the
: last correct boot message was that the partition tables are ok. Then
: Linux said that it could not mount the root disk, and paniced.
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Here's what you do:
Once you get a known-good kernel working, type the following at the
command line:
# rootdev (insert your kernel's path here) (insert your root partition here)
for my system which has / mounted on /dev/hda2 and the Image is in /, here's
my command line:
# rootdev /Image /dev/hda2
Same works for boot diskettes, only you substitute "/Image" above with the
drive you're booting from WITH THE DISK YOU'RE BOOTING FROM INSERTED!
To fix your bad superblock problem, I suggest you grab your a1 and a2 disks,
boot them, mount your root filesystem on /root and check the etc directory
for any mtab* files. If any are there, DELETE THEM! Also, verify your
etc/fstab file to make sure that the filesystems you have mounted are
valid ones.
-- Born to void warranties! ianj@ijpc.UUCP