Need help

odyn01 · n00b Joined: 30 May 2005 Posts: 18

I have seem to install linux properly, i have followed the installation guide but it will not boot up.

i get an error message last two lines i see are

UDF-fs: No partition found 1
Kernerl panic - not syncig: VFS : Unable to mount root fs on unknown - block (3,4)

I have installed windows first and got lilo working,
my boot partition is in /dev/hda2
swap is /dev/hda3
root is /dev/hda4

now i cant even load root to execute any commands
Could use some expert oppinion and support if possible.

Thank You

TheX · Guru Joined: 31 Jul 2004 Posts: 349 Location: .de

I'm not so familiar with lilo , but to get a useful response, you have to post some more infos !

for example

Chriske · Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2005 12:57 am Post subject:

It seems to me that there's indeed a problem with your lilo.conf, wrong root-parameter to kernel?
Boot the gentoo-cd again, and mount eveyting as described in http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2005.0/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=4#doc_chap5 (only do the mounting part, do not recreate your filesystems or anything like that). That way you can check your lilo.conf again (don't forget to passwd again when you have chrooted). You can e.g. cp you lilo.conf to your windows partition, for easy copy-pasting.
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odyn01 · n00b Joined: 30 May 2005 Posts: 18

How can i acces the root partition after i boot up from the live cd ?

Chriske · Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2005 1:41 am Post subject:

Weel, as i've said, mount everyting as described in http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2005.0/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=4#doc_chap5. So in your case just "mount /dev/hda4 /mnt/gentoo"

then you can, e.g. mount your windows: "mkdir /mnt/win" and "mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/win" (that is if your windows is on hda1). And you cp your lilo.conf to your win-partition somewhere.
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