Fedora Upgrade seems to have killed my RH 9 box

[Matt Raible]

OK, I can type e2label and I get something, but I don't think my hard 
drive is mounted.  If I do df, I get:

Filesystem
rootfs
/dev/root.old
/tmp/cdrom


On Nov 19, 2003, at 12:29 PM, Matt Raible wrote:

> How do I get to a command line where I can execute this.  I tried 
> "linux rescue", but all I get is:
>
> You don't have any Linux partitions.  Press return to get a shell.  
> The sysem will reboot automatically when you exit from the shell.
>
> I tried both the Fedora CD and RH 9 CD to "rescue" it.
>
> In /sbin, all I have is:
>
> init
> insmod
> loader
> modprobe
> rmmod
> sh
>
> Can I download e2label and run it from a floppy or something?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt
>
> On Nov 19, 2003, at 12:09 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 11:26:27 -0700, Matt Raible wrote:
>>
>>> appears I'm hosed - here's the message I get on startup:
>>>
>>> Creating root device
>>> mkrootdev: label / not found
>>
>> Find out which of your partitions is the root partition. Then
>> run /sbin/e2label on it to see what the current label is.
>> Afterwards run  /sbin/e2label /dev/hdWHATEVER /
>> to create the '/' label on it.
>>
>>> Mounting root filesystem
>>> mount: error 2 mounting ext3
>>> pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2
>>> umount /initrd/proc failed: 2
>>> Freeing unused kernel memory: 132K freed
>>> Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel
>>> _ <- Flashing cursor
>>>
>>> I removed some of the kernels last week, so don't know if this would
>>> cause any issues.  Any ideas on how to recover this sucker?
>>
>> -- 
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