2007-11-03, 07:07 AM
Dear friends,
I have a system whose configuration is as hereunder:
AMD Sempron processor 2800+ with 1 GB of RAM and two hard disks, one of
120 GB and the other of 320GB.
The partitions are as follows:
Code:
Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 2432 19535008+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 2433 4864 19535040 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 * 4865 7296 19535040 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda4 7297 14593 58613152+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 7297 7420 995998+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda6 7421 9852 19535008+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda7 9853 12284 19535008+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda8 12285 14593 18547011 83 Linux
Disk /dev/hdc: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdc1 * 1 25496 204796588+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdc2 25497 38913 107772052+ 7 HPFS/NTFSI have three operating systems in the partitions mentioned below:
Code:
/dev/hda1 RedHat Enterprise Linux 5
/dev/hda2 Fedora Core 7
/dev/hda3 Windoze XPToday, while trying to boot into Fedora Core 7, the system could not boot and the following message was spit out.
Code:
mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root'
setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory
setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory
setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory
switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory
kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!The kernel version of Fedora Core 7 is 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7. Is there any way to set the system right and boot into Fedora Core 7 ? The contents of the file
"/boot/grub/menu.ist" are as follows:
Code:
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda1
# initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=30
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
#hiddenmenu
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (2.6.18-8.el5)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5 ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet crashkernel=128M@16M
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-8.el5.img
title Fedora-base (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img
title Win XP
rootnoverify (hd0,2)
chainloader +1I also ran the command "fsck.ext3 -fv /dev/hda2 after ensuring that /dev/hda2 is unmounted and no errors/bad blocks are reported. Can anybody enlighten me as to how to go about to boot into Fedora Core 7. I further inform that I could boot into the other two OS's, i.e., RHEL-5 and Windoze XP.