Booting Linux: kernel panic

[Alvaro Figueiredo]

Werner.Riener at fresenius-kabi.com wrotes:

>hi -
>you did a fdisk /mbr under windoz ... and the machine bootes now
>in the `boot_flag-setted partition - windows, is that right?
>one more question ... :
>did your kernel correctly boot with LOADLIN?
>maybe it helpes to solve the problem later ...
>let me know, when i'm wrong
>- werner.

I did executed "fdisk /mbr" under Windows to try restore the MBR.
Immediatelly after that I did executed lilo again. I did readed that trick
somewhere in the Internet, but it not worked to me.

I had tried numerous tricks between re-installs. Always, I only got booted
with the boot diskette. When I tried boot without the diskette, I got the
messages like that in the original message.

Today, I got a work around: I installed a IDE HD and I re-installed Linux
with the /boot partition and a swap partition in the IDE HD. All the other
partititions went to the SCSI HD, including another swap partition. I did
configured BIOS to boot from the IDE HD. That worked fine.

I think that when the boot access the SCSI HD to load the initrd image from
the /boot partition, the device stay busy and not let mount the root
partition. This is only a guess, I'm not sure.

Alvaro Figueiredo.
alvaro at token.com.br






To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo at FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message