Re: grub

[Keith Winston <kwinston@twmi.rr.com>]

On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 06:50:35PM +0100, Ted wrote:
> Hi..
> I am trying to boot a SuSE partition on hdb1 using grub..I have the 
> following lines in menu.lst
> 
> title suse2
> root    (hd1,0)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 ro hdc=scsi
> (END)
> 
> On bootup the system starts to load and then I get a kernel panic 
> message and the system locks up...Could anyone please tell me what I am
> doinmg wrong...

Most recent SuSE versions require an initrd image to boot since they use
reiserfs as a default file system for /.  If you are using reiserfs or
ext3 as /, you need an initrd so kernel can mount it at boot.

Best Regards,
Keith
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