I have just upgraded my system with a new mobo, CPU and RAM.
I have 2 drives, Windows and Mandrake 10

The new board supports SATA and because of this Linux is seeing my 2 ATA discs as hde and hdf, where before they were hda and hdb.

I boot using Lilo
When I boot I get a kernel panic message:"No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel"

If I boot from CD into rescue mode my drives are mounted under /mnt.
I can edit the /etc/lilo.conf file but when I run lilo it cannot find shared libraries (everything is mounted under /mnt)

I tried doing an upgrade install. However when the wizard came to run lilo I got:
"lilo failure: Fatal: open /dev/hda1: no such device or address"

Is there a way out? If the worst comes to the worst and I do a complete reinstall will this still happen?

I'm currently stuck in Windows so any help back to Penguinland will be appreciated.

you should be able to pass in additional options on boot to replace hda with hde

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO-2.html#ss2.3

alternatively can you not temporarily turn off the normal IDE (PATA) channels in BIOS?

quote--------
If I boot from CD into rescue mode my drives are mounted under /mnt.
I can edit the /etc/lilo.conf file but when I run lilo it cannot find shared libraries (everything is mounted under /mnt)
------------------

if you mean that the root-dir ( / ) is under /mnt then you should either :

1) "#chroot /mnt" ; then run lilo.

or

2) run " #lilo -r /mnt "

egag

Thanks for the help.

As it turned out pressing Shift or Alt before Lilo started had no effect.

For other Mandrake users using the graphical Lilo screen: Press Escape when you get the Lilo menu. You can then type in the boot prompts.

So I then followed Acid_Kewpie's hints and re-entered Penguinland.

For others in this fix: There is no way to turn off the SATA controller in CMOS setup. Windows doesn't mind or notice that hda has become hde (the 1st four drives are assigned to SATA).

So at the Lilo boot prompt enter root=/dev/hdf1 if your Linux disc in#s the 2nd disc in the system. Once you're in, edit /etc/lilo.conf to change your drive names and then run /sbin/lilo.

Egag: did not get to try your suggestion - which seems rather elegant - 'cos I was probably working on the problem when your post was made, but thanks.

hey....you got it up and running : thats what matters...
( read my sig. )

egag