Now What? New Distribution Woes

[Robert Kennedy]

Hi All,

Well, I've gone and done something, I'm not sure quite
what.

I've been running RH 7.x. I wanted to move to Suse 7.3
so I got another hard drive. I tried some removable
drive holders, but my MB could not detect them when
installed.

I left the original HD and CD connected to the main
IDE header and added the new HD to the secondary one.

I ran thru the Suse install with the idea I'd
disconnect the first HD if I didn't like what I saw.
Well Yeast2, or whatever you call it, detected the RH
and had me create a boot floppy for Suse. So since it
looked like the first HD would not be touched I went
ahead with the install. The install went fine as far
as the Suse drive is concerned. The boot floppy sends
the machine right to the KDE desktop.

However, if I remove the floppy, the machine tries to
boot Red Hat. The bios check sees both HD's. The RH
Lilo goes by. The HD's are detected. Autorun finishes.

Then POOF! Warning: unable to open initial console.

Kernal panic: NO init found. Try passing init= option
to kernal.

Then everything stops. (I've got a few more details,
if needed.)

I'd like to be able to boot Red Hat, but that's not
necessary. I do need to salvage files and my family's
internet favorites listings.

Any suggestions would be welcome. (Nice to finally
have  Road Runner back up at home.)

            Best,

                 Bob Kennedy

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