Problems with Woody/grub
Recently I installed Debian (Woody)with a bf-2.4.25.iso from an ftp server. Everything works fine. The I installed grub (0.9.5):
apt-get install grub grub-doc grub -install --root-directory=/boot /dev/hda (on MBR) update-grub (to make a menu.lst) The menu.lst looks like: ##### menu.lst ###### default 0 timeout 10 title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel bf-2.4.25 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.25 root=/dev/hda2 ro savedefault boot ################## Ran grun-update again The device.map looks OK too (hd0 for /dev/hda and fd0 for /dev/fd0 Then I removed LILO: apt-get remove lilo dpkg --purge lilo But when I reboot, the shit happens. The menu shows, i select the right kernel and grub loads the kernel, but stops after a while. These are the last 5 messeges i get: EXT3fs mounted filesystem with orderd data mode VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly Freeing unused kernel memory: 92K freed Warning: Unable to open an initial console Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel Is it that I haven't got an initrd image? Can someone please help me?? PS My partitions scheme look like: /boot hda1 100MB ext3 Primary / hda2 500MB ext3 Primary /usr hda5 3000MB ext3 Logical /var hda6 2000MB ext3 Logical /tmp hda7 500MB ext3 Logical /home hda8 12000MB ext3 Logical swap hda9 400MB swap Logical |
Have you tried adding the initrd line manually?
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel bf-2.4.25 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.25 root=/dev/hda2 ro initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.4.25 savedefault boot |
Haven't tried it yet. Going to do it 2night. Hope it helps. Have read many articles on how to install grub, but it never mentioned anything about initrd images.
Thnz |
I did the changes on a laptop that I have been having problems booting a new kernel on and it worked great.
Thanks, |
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