I know this is for RH 7.3 and this is the 8.0 list but this is a general linux issue more than a straight 7.3 issue. Also I don't know how many people are still following the 7.3 list. If anybody could help me with this I would really appreciate it. Thanks in advance. ------ Posted on the 7.3 forum I hope somebody can help me with this. I am a linux newbie and I have been running 7.3 for a couple months but I don't know a lot about what goes on behind the scenes. So to help me understand the inner workings I was trying to follow the "linux from scratch" (LFS) website, http://www.linuxfromscratch.org. I wanted to keep my old setup with 7.3 and build the LFS in a seperate partition. Well this is where things went wrong. I tried to create a new partition on hda but all of the space was taken up by the seven hda partitions labeled hda(1-7). So I couldn't just create an hda8 partition. But in my infinite wisdom I thought that I could delete my hda5 partition to which my /home was mounted because it was 23gb and I was only using 1%. Now my user files aren't located on this partition because they are located on hda2 (I think?) where the /usr was mounted. I looked through what was on hda5 and all there was some gzip driver files for my video card and other misc. nonessential files but just in case I moved the files over into the /usr area before I deleted the partition. So once I deleted the files my plan was to go in to fdisk and delete hda5 and then take that 23gb and create a new hda5 with only 10gb and used the other 13gb for my new partition for the LFS install. Well, once I deleted the hda5 partition, it said that the changes would take affect the next time I booted up. So before I create the smaller hda5 and the new LFS partitions, I rebooted the machine. Big mistake! Now I can't even boot up. When I try to boot up I get the following error: EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: recovery complete EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2 Freeing unused kernel memory: 304K freed Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel This error means nothing to me other than I really screwed something up. I have tried booting from my linux boot disk and I get the same error. I have also tried booting from the installation CDs. I was hoping that I could go through the update procedure and get to the partition part and fix this mess. But when it starts to search for hardware it is trying to access hda5 and it gives me an error report that its run out of space. I don't know what else to try except reinstall 7.3 but I don't want to lose all the data I have on my hard drive. I'm not even sure if that will work anyway. Please help!! Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance, Scott Scott Chaney Analytical Mechanics Associates Inc. (757) 864-8043 -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
