[wellylug] RedHat 8.0 update problem

[Jonny Robertson]

Okay, starting with a potentially stupid question, but do you have
an /initrd folder?
You need this empty folder to be present in order for the pivot_root() to 
succeed when your system boots. 

To boot into single user mode:  type 'linux single' from lilo, or find 
grub instructions here: 
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/custom-guide/s1-rescuemode-booting-single.html

If you can't get that far, put in the installation cd, and progress 
through the installation until you can get a shell on alt+f2.  From there 
you can mknod() /dev/hda[n] and mount up the partition manually.

-jonny


On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, zrx1100 wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I had a good working system with RH7.2 so I decided to update it to RH8.0 :)
> 
> Install went fine untill reboot time. Got the following message
> 
> mount: error 6 mounting ext3
> pivotroot: pivot_root (/sysroot, /sysroot/initrd) failed 2
> umount /initrd/proc failed 2
> freeing unused kernel memory 240k freed
> kernal panic: no init found. Try passing init=option to kernal
> 
> Boots OK from floppy (except things don't work - ie dhcp, atalk, firewall,
> etc.... Nothing important :)  )
> 
> Where do I start? I'm new to linux and I've searched the web for help and it
> goes straight over my head. Most sites talk like I know what I'm doing or
> I'm using RH 6.0 (!).
> 
> Help...
> 
> Cheers
> Andrew
> 
> PS I got the CD burner going before this. At least I'm learning.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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