Hi All,

I have an Lenovo laptop T60 running RHEL WS 4. I recently had to have my LCD replaced which should not have affected the Hard drive. However, when I tried to boot up my laptop, I got the following error;

(normal other boot stuff)
....then:
Red Hat nash....(etc)
mkroot label /1 not found
mount error 2 mounting ext 3
mount error 2 mounting none
switchroot: mount failed :22
umount /initrd/dev failed 2
kernel panic - not syncing Atempting to kill init


....
and then it just sits there and hangs.

this is on the fist page of the booting sequence -
before it even switches to any windows or starts loading modules etc.

I'm not sure whats going on but its starting to look like I've got a bad boot partition. Thanks for your input all.

D22-

Either remove your HD when sending a machine for service, or backup and re-image it with the OEM software that came with the machine. Never expect that your hard drive contents will survive service.

Thanks for the advice, I'll keep that in mind. Hard to imagine that replacing an LCD would result in this situation. At any point, any thoughts of resolutions to this problem?, thxs.

D22-

Without examining the hard drive, it's hard to tell what they did. They could have reinstalled a Windows image to the root partition without refreshing the master boot record or boot partition. The could have done almost anything.

In any case, your original data is no longer to be trusted as valid. Reinstall and restore any backup that you have, as if you just replaced the hard drive.