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help me please this message appear when i tried booting from linux-2.6.16.22
mount: Mounting /dev/hda5 on /mnt failed: No such device or address
ERROR: mount returned error code 1. Trouble ahead
mount: Mounting /dev/hda5 on /mnt failed: Invalid argument
mount: Mounting /dev/hda5 on /mnt failed: Invalid argument
/boot/initrd.gz: exiting
pivot_root: pivot_root: Device or resource or busy
Freeing unused kernel memory: 164k freed
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i've installed linux-2.6.16.22 from binary but that message appear while system booting and after that message appeared the system stop booting, some of my friend there's must something wrong with fstab, here is my fstab
for information i tried it with Slackware 10.2 on Toshiba L100 notebook and i've been tried it several times with different kernel both of with binary code and source code, i hope someone who expert here can help me, thank before!
You may also need to add it to your /etc/lilo.conf file. Are you using reiserfs or ext3 system?
Read the file /boot/README.initrd everything's in there, including examples
Another easy to read article is here, look at the bottom of the page: http://www.madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=4723
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