Re: Installing grub for a different computer

From: Kevin Freeman (kfreem02_at_comcast.net)
Date: 11/17/04

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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:27:04 -0600

    On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 07:15 +0000, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
    > assumptions, assumptions....
    > NOW Murphy is kicking good and proper. Here are the last few messages
    > from the console:
    >
    > Mounting root filesystem.
    > EXT3-fs: unable to read superblock
    > mount: error 22 mounting ext3
    > pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2
    > umount /initrd/proc failed: 2
    > Freeing unused kernel memory: 168k freed
    > Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.
    >

    Looking at the bright side, at least the kernel was loaded from
    the /boot partition. ;)

    I can think of 3 likely causes:

    1) root parameter on kernel line is pointing to the wrong partition
    2) initrd points to a different version than the kernel version
    3) your / partition is at least partially corrupt

    > I tried the above with two different kernels (there's 4 or 5 installed
    > - all FC1).
    > Now, I mentioned before that I was able to mount the root file system on my
    > other computer OK, so I'm rather puzzled by the failure to find the
    > superblock.
    >
    > Is there anything I can do at this stage?

    Try modifying the root= parameter of grub's kernel config. If you did a
    stock FC1 install, try root=LABEL=/. Otherwise, just try root=/dev/hda1
    through root=/dev/hda5. One of them has to work! This should not cause
    any harm to the drive since nothing will be mounted read/write until
    your / partition is properly specified.

    If this still does not work, you might try Toms root/boot:
    http://www.toms.net/rb/

    This floppy contains fdisk, vi, etc. and will allow you to explore the
    drive to locate the / partition and edit /boot/grub/grub.conf. While
    there, also verify that /boot/grub/menu.lst links
    to /boot/grub/grub.conf.

    Kevin Freeman 

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