F7 install: grub prompt on reboot
Tim
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Tue Jun 5 14:54:06 UTC 2007
Timothy Murphy:
>> and finally
>>
>> grub>boot
Colin Brace:
> This starts to work, I get a flurry of messages about things loading,
> but then something appears to go wrong, ie:
>
> mount: could not find file system '/dev/root'
> mount: could not find file system '/proc'
> mount: could not find file system '/sys'
>
> Switchroot: mount failed
> Booting has failed
> ...Kernel panic...
That sounds like you don't have the system root path specified correctly
on the kernel line.
e.g. kernel /vm........ ro root=LABEL=/
Where it's got "root=" the bit after it has to point to where / is found
on your drives (can be specified via a *unique* label, or device).
--
(This box runs FC5, my others run FC4 & FC6, in case that's
important to the thread.)
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