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Old 03-09-2006, 08:09 PM   #1
wjeanpaul
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Unable to Boot - FC Core 4


I am having issues booting my system. Below are the boot error and/or messages

Boot/Error messages:

root(hd0,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
Kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.1831_FC4smp ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
[Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x1928fx]
initrd /initrd-2.6.15-1.1831_FC4smp.img
[Linux-initred @ 0x37ec0000, 0x12f683 bytes]

Uncompressing Linux... OK, booting the kernel.
Red Hat nash version 4.2.15 starting
mkrootdev: label / not found
mount: error 2 mounting ext3
ERROR opening /dev/console!!!!:2
error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 0
error dup2' ing fd of 0 to 1
error dup2' ing fd of 0 to 2
switchroot: mount failed:22
Kernel panic - not syncing:Attempted to kill init!

Basically, the boot process stopped after it attempted to kill init.

Any ideas on how to fix this issue. I am not sure how it happened.
 
Old 03-09-2006, 08:25 PM   #2
brian_lad
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Did you by chance attempt to upgrade your kernel?

When the system is booting do you get a screen that states something like

Loading Fedora Core with a version number 2.6.15-1.1831. etc....

If so is there more than one kernel version listed.

If that is the case you could try selecting the pervious kernel version.

Brian
 
  


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