[NCLUG] KRUD 7.2 Boot Failure
Kevin Fenzi
kevin at scrye.com
Thu Jan 24 15:47:31 MST 2002
>>>>> "Scott" == Scott G Brauer <ScottBrauer at Compuserve.com> writes:
Scott> Good day, Background: I was running RedHat 7.1 on a 100 Mhz
Scott> Pentium-S. I tried upgrading to 7.2 by installing packages I
Scott> downloaded from RedHat. When I rebooted after updating
Scott> packages, my system gets to LI and locks up.
sounds like you upgraded the kernel rpms and lilo can no longer
find the old kernel. :(
Scott> I received the most recent version of KRUD and created a boot
Scott> disk using rawrite and boot.img. The disk will boot the system
Scott> to the options screen. When I select an option (i.e. linux
Scott> rescue) I receive the following:
Scott> Loading initrd.img.... Boot failed: please change disks and
Scott> press a key to continue.
Scott> This error message doesn't mean much to me.
Scott> Could anybody tell me what it means and how I might remedy my
Scott> boot problem?
Sounds like a bad floppy.
Try another one...
I have sometimes had to try about 10 from a new box before getting a
good one. Floppys just suck. ;(
Once you get it to boot you should be able to do:
/mnt/sysimage/sbin/lilo -r /mnt/sysimage
and hopefully it will then boot. You might need to modify your
/mnt/sysimage/etc/lilo.conf file for the kernel you have in /boot.
kevin
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