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I have been working on this for 2 days... I can't figure out whats going on. I have poured over the internet looking for the answer, without any luck.
I have pulled down the RH9 iso from both RH and linuxiso, and burned multiple copies, ruling out cd write errors
I put the CD in and boot from it, fine.
I get the first RH page wanting you to hit enter, or whatever you want to do with options (ie linux test, etc)
It starts its thing, then reports back
Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 48 :05
fine.
I found out I can get around that by passing
linux root=/dev/hdc/isolinux
ok- but thats not all!
its now gets past that but then has another error
Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.
arg. stuck.
and the kicker, this is happening on 4 COMPLETELY different machines, so i am confident that it is not hardware related, it doesnt get far enough for it to be.
I've tried all the trcks hdx=cdrom, apic, etc. nothing, nothing, nothing.
This is killing me. ANY help would be wildly appriciated.
because red hat is gay??? (note these are entirely my own views and not those expressed by linuxquestions.org, their members, or any third parties realting to linuxquestions.org ) heh
But seriously i dunno, maybe your cdrom drive is too old? I have that problem with some iso and not others, it could be a number of things. the thing to do now is say hey it works and forget about it , when you mess it breaks as i found out today after having no mail for a week
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