Kernel Panic: pivot_root (/sysroot, /sysroot/initrd) Faild: 2 Help Needed
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Kernel Panic: pivot_root (/sysroot, /sysroot/initrd) Faild: 2 Help Needed
I just repartitioned my hard drive to create more room for Oggs. So I created the new hard drive, edited /etc/fstab to change the new drive letters (I moved some partitions), and edited /etc/lilo.conf to reflect that it should boot from /dev/hde6 and not /dev/hde10
So I boot up my computer and I see a blank screen with this error:
pivot_root (/sysroot, /sysroot/initrd) Failed: 2
And my computer dies without doing anything. I'm running Mandrake 9.2. Anybody know what is wrong and what I might need to do to fix it?
Decompress your initrd (with 'gzip -d'), mount it as a loopback file ('mount initrdfile /a/folder -o loop'), then post the contents of the 'linuxrc' file in that's in there.
Wait, lilo won't work in Knoppix right away because the files are in different places. Edit lilo.conf to show where the files are. Ex:
#Before
image =/boot/vmlinuz-mdk
#After, in knoppix
image=/mnt/hde6/boot/vmlinuz-mdk
Make sure that the root partion (the one mounted on /) has a directory initrd. This directory is empty and never contains anything, but if it does not exists pivot_root at the end of linuxrc script in the initrd. It swaps the initial root device with the actual and then unmounts the ram diskk.
Let me know how it goes.
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