No longer able to boot Linux.

Passive · 09-25-2002, 10:18 AM

Hi all,
I have a win2k/mandrake setup. I recently had to resize some NTFS partitions from within windows, and now when I try to boot Linux, I get a Kernel Panic, something like this following:
mounting root filesystem
attempt to access beyond end of device
unable to read superblock
mount: error 22
kernel panic: no init found

That's not a direct quote. Any ideas on why this happened, or how to solve it?

Mara · 09-25-2002, 01:51 PM

Try to boot from a boot disk (or installation cd) and run fsck on Linux partitions. It looks like NTFS was not the only one partition to be moved/resized...

concoran · 09-26-2002, 02:02 PM

Once you create/alter/delete partitions, the partition numbering
usually changes. If you are using SuSE, this problem is more
pronounced as it takes even an empty space as partition. So, find
out the right partition number of your installation, and use that
number at the boot time (linux root=/dev/hdaX where x is the
number of your partition). This should do.