initial console not found

rommel · Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2002 7:28 pm Post subject: initial console not found

i am getting a kernel panic and failure to boot....the messege is saying that the initial console not found / init failure.

this sytem is using a highpoint 370 chipset for hde and hdg, i have LSR /dev/md0 mirrored as boot /dev/md1 striping as swap and /dev/md2 striping as root.

also grub fails to load from the install but i can use a grub floppy to load the kernel but then get the kernel panic above.

anyone ahve any ideas?

rommel · Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2002 7:57 pm Post subject:

fixed the kernel panic...user error again!....i forgot to edit modules.autoload during the install....so it boots now but only with a grub floppy not with grub installed to the mbr.

the only difference i think is that from the mbr grub freezes as it tries to load the stage-1.5 and from the floppy it goes directly to stage-2...so should i delete the stage-1.5 from /boot/grub?...if so which one or all...root is on reiserfs.

ciao

rommel · Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2002 12:54 am Post subject:

well i might as well finish what i started...lol

grub works now , i ran it again with root (hd0,0) and setup (hd1) ,the partitions are LSR mirrors of each other, and it liked that and booted strait away.