Re: Dual boot on Dell X300
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 11:20:01PM -0400, Daniel Devost wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a Dell X300 and I want to dual boot between Sarge and Etch. I
> have two drives, /dev/hda that holds Etch (/dev/hda1) and /dev/sda that
> holds Sarge (/dev/sda1). Both drives have swap space and grub and fstab
> have the correct entries. Grub is installed on the MBR of /dev/hda and
> the menu.lst resides in /boot/grub/.
>
> Etch boots fine but Sarge terminates with:
>
> pivot_root: No such file or directory
> /sbin/init: 432:cannot open dev/console: No such file
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
Looks like it can't find the initrd.img file.
> /dev/hda is the regular drive of the laptop while /dev/sda is a drive
> mounted in the cdrom bay. Once etch is booted, I can mount /dev/sda1 and
> read/write to it.
>
> Not sure what is going on.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Daniel Devost
>
> menu.lst:
>
> title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.27-2-386
> root (hd1,0)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-386 root=/dev/sda1 ro
> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-2-386
> savedefault
> boot
>
> title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.27-2-386 (recovery mode)
> root (hd1,0)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-386 root=/dev/sda1 ro single
> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-2-386
> savedefault
> boot
>
> ### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
>
> # This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
> # ones.
> title Other operating systems:
> root
>
>
> # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing
> # linux installation on /dev/hda1.
> title Debian GNU/Linux (testing/unstable) (on /dev/hda1)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-1-486 root=/dev/hda1
> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-1-486
> savedefault
> boot
>
>
> # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing
> # linux installation on /dev/hda1.
> title Debian GNU/Linux 2.6.16-2-486 (on /dev/hda1)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16-2-486 root=/dev/hda1
> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.16-2-486
> savedefault
> boot
>
>
> # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing
> # linux installation on /dev/hda1.
> title Debian GNU/Linux (testing/unstable) (on /dev/hda1)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16-2-686 root=/dev/hda1
> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.16-2-686
> savedefault
> boot
>
>
> # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing
> # linux installation on /dev/hda1.
> title Ok Debian GNU/Linux (testing/unstable) (on /dev/hda1)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-2-486 root=/dev/hda1
> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-2-486
> savedefault
> boot
What does dpkg-reconfigure linux-image<each-version> do?
then
What does an update-grub do?
That *might* recreate the initrd.img
--
Chris.
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