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LILO Multiboot problem

I am quad booting Backtrack, Slackware, Fedora, and Windows XP on my laptop. The problem comes in when I try to boot Fedora. This is the error I receive.

Code:

Creating root device.

Mounting root filesystem.

mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root'

Setting up other filesystems.

Setting up new root fs

setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory

no fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults

setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory

setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory

Switching to new root and running init.

unmounting old /dev

unmounting old /proc

unmounting old /sys

switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory

Booting has failed.

Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

Here is my lilo.conf

Code:

boot = /dev/hda

prompt

timeout = 50

bitmap = /boot/splash.bmp

change-rules

reset

vga = 0x317



# BackTrack 2.0 Final

image = /boot/vmlinuz

  root = /dev/hda1

  label = BackTrack

  initrd = /boot/splash.initrd

  read-only



# Slackware 12.0

image = /mnt/hda2/boot/vmlinuz

  root = /dev/hda2

  label = Slackware

  read-only



# Fedora 7

image = /mnt/hda5/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7

  root = /dev/hda5

  label = Fedora

  initrd = /mnt/hda5/boot/initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img

  read-only



# Windows XP

other = /dev/hda3

  label = Windows

  table = /dev/hda



# EOF

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

- Pete

What is your Fedora version?
Because Fedora 7 has grave problems with SATA hard drives.
I am forced to install Fedora 7 on an IDE hard drive.

Many people who benefits by participating in this forum have problems installing Fedora 7 on SATA hard drives.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gins (Post 2868418)

I am running Fedora 7.

The hard drive is a IDE drive in a laptop.

Fedora likes to sell every user a LVM. Did you have one? If you do then the root should point to the LVM partition.

Quote:

Originally Posted by saikee (Post 2868437)

Fedora likes to sell every user a LVM. Did you have one? If you do then the root should point to the LVM partition.

I used a custom layout and specified sda5 in Fedora. Thinking about it that might be an issue, if I am setting root in lilo.conf as /dev/hda5 maybe Fedora is not seeing it because it expects /dev/sda5.

I tried specifying sda5 just for kicks in lilo and it wouldnt take. What are some thoughts on that?

The 2.6.20 and newer kernel abandon the Pata disk names and group Pata devices same as Sata/SCSI/USB disks.

It is highly probably the the Fedora 7 only recognise sda5 although I know some distros still support hda devices.

Before I can advise you any further I need your confirmation of the following

(1) Have you got Grub inside Fedora or you just use Lilo throughout?
(2) It is highly irregular to put the kernel and initrd in /mnt directory. Should you not have the red bits removed?

Code:

# Fedora 7

image = /mnt/hda5/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7

  root = /dev/hda5

  label = Fedora

  initrd = /mnt/hda5/boot/initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img

  read-only

For example My Fedora 7 menu.lst looks like this

Code:

title Fedora (2.6.22.1-41.fc7)

        root (hd1,5)

        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.1-41.fc7 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet

        initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.22.1-41.fc7.img

As far as I am aware all distros put their kernel and initrd in the /boot directory, although there is nothing to stop a user to place them somewhere else.