Upgrade Disaster

["Scott Taylor" <scott.taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I tried to upgrade from 7.3 to 8 but met with absolute disaster, when the install program forced me to choose a location for a larger swap partition between /dev/hda2 (boot partition where GRUB was) and /dev/hda3 (where my root file system was). I chose /dev/hda2. Windows is on /dev/hda1.

 

After the upgrade I could not boot Linux past "INIT: version 2.8.4 booting", so I did a complete Linux reinstall, and still cannot get past this point.

 

I went into rescue mode which makes you install everything under /mnt/sysimage, and had a look at /mnt/sysimage/etc/lilo.conf.anaconda which read:

prompt
timeout=50
default=linux
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
message=/boot/message
linear

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-14
label=linux
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-14.img
read-only
append="root=label=/"

other=/dev/hda1
optional
label=dos 

I tried to change "boot=/dev/hda2" and "root=/dev/hda3" but could not run lilo for some reason. (Do I have to make it an executable?)

Anyway here are the output of the following commands (under linux rescue):

"fdisk -l"

Device        Boot    Start    End    Blocks        ID    System

/dev/hda1    *           1      710    5703043+    b    Win95 FAT32

/dev/hda2                 711   723    104422+      83  Linux

/dev/hda3                724    2021  10426185    83   Linux

/dev/hda4                2022  2495   3807405      f    Win95 Ext'd (LBA)

/dev/hda5                2002  2495    3807373+   82  Linux Swap

"df -h"

Filesystem        Size        Used        Avail        Use        Mounted

rootfs                4.3M        1.0M        3.0M        26%        /

/dev/root.old      4.3M        1.0M        3.0M        26%        /

/tmp/cdrom      644.0M    644.0M       0            100%       /mnt/source

/dev/hda3        9.8G        4.0G           5.3G        43%        /mnt/sysimage

/dev/hda2        98.7M      16.9M        76.8M        18%       /mnt/sysimage/boot

So...can anyone see what I can do to get past "INIT: version 2.8.4 booting"?

Regards

Scott

 

 

 

 

 

 

, can someone help me boot into Linux from this information?