Re: HELP!! /dev/root mount failure

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Hadders wrote:
> Ed Greshko wrote:
>> Hadders wrote:
>>   
>>> Hi Ed,
>>>   It's a pretty standard looking output for grub, as it's the install
>>> default.
>>>
>>> #boot=/dev/hda
>>> default=0
>>> timeout=5
>>> splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>>> hiddenmenu
>>> title Fedora Core (2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp)
>>>     root (hd0,0)
>>>     kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
>>>     initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp.img
>>>
>>>
>>> e2label said /dev/hda1 was "/"  and couldn't get a label for /dev/hda3,
>>> which should be swap. It said "Bad magic number in superblock"
>>> So I ran mkswap on /dev/hda3 again, to be sure. Then went to /etc/fstab
>>> and said to use /dev/hda3 for swap, not LABEL=SWAP-hda3
>>>     
>>
>> Could you ungzip your initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp.img file and extract
>> it with cpio and show the contents of the init file?
>>
>>
>>
>>   
> 
> Done.  Okay, the main thing I think you'll be interested in is
> 
> resume LABEL=SWAP-hda3
> echo Creating root device.
> mkrootdev -t ext3 -o defaults,ro hda1
> echo Mounting root filesystem.
> mount /sysroot
> 
> Okay, it would seem to point to the use of "hda1" as label/dev is
> wrong?? Shouldn't it say either /dev/hda1 OR LABEL=/

I would make it /dev/hda1 and give it a try.

I'm using volume groups on my FC5 system so my entries are a bit different.

echo Creating root device.
mkrootdev -t ext3 -o defaults,ro /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
echo Mounting root filesystem.
mount /sysroot

Ed


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