help - boot problems possibly from partition magic

From: richard yuwono (richard_y_at_outgun.com)
Date: 08/25/03

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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 16:24:56 +0800

    hi,

    i had rh 9.0 and win2k running nicely on my box at home and recently i installed partition magic 8.0. after rebooting the grub splash screen no longer came up, but instead i got a grub prompt. i tried a boot disk which got a bit further but gave me "kernel panic: no init found".

    needing _any_ system, i did the only thing i knew how and got a windows recovery console and did a 'fixmbr'. after googling my problem i tried to re-install grub which got me back to the prompt. when i tried 'kernel (hd0,5)/vmlinuz' followed by 'boot' after some statements i get:

    VFS: cannot open root device "" or 48:05
    please append a correct "root=" boot option
    kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 48:05

    according to grub i've got the following on hd0:

    partition no. | fs type | partition type
    ----------------------------------------
    0 fat 0xc
    4 fat 0xb
    5 ext2fs 0x83
    6 ext2fs 0x83
    7 unknown 0x82
    8 fat 0x6

    i kinda recall making the same mistake thomas kerstan made (https://listman.redhat.com/archives/ext3-users/2002-May/msg00055.html) when i had PM 6.0:

    I unfortunate did not note the error
    > > at the time. it was something like "CHS and LBA block
    > > count do not match. lba is calculated as correct. fix
    > > this error" to which I mistakenly said yes.

    i dont know if this had a role to play in my problem?
    hopefully someone could please tell me what's going on here and how to fix this problem?

    thanks in advance.

    rich. 

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