Thanks for the help. I checked to see if /boot/initrd-2.4.18-14.img exists and it does. How do I know it is corrupt and how do you make a new one? Andrew -----Original Message----- From: psyche-list-admin@redhat.com [mailto:psyche-list-admin@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Kevin Brouelette Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 10:09 AM To: psyche-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: Unable to boot RH 8.0 On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 19:28:49 -0500 "Andrew Henwood" <henwood.andrew@verizon.net> wrote: > I am having a heck of a time booting Red Hat 8.0. I am upgrading from > Red Hat 7.3. There is no problem with the upgrade. The problem > starts when I boot. The system just hangs at ININT: version 2.84 > booting. > > At first I thought it was my boot loader but it looks OK. > > PC information: > > Hardware: > AMD Athlon 800mhz (is compatible with Red Hat 8.0) > 384mb of RAM > > Grub is configured as follows: > > title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-14) > root (hd1, 0) > kernal /vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=LABEL=/ hdd=ide-scsi > initrd /initrd-2.4.18.img > > title Windows XP > root noverify (hd0,0) > chainloader +1 > What do I need to do to load Red Hat 8.0? Any help would be greatly > appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Andrew Hello, unless you typed this by hand, you ,mispelled 'kernel' and and 'initrd /initrd-2.4.18.img' should probably be 'initrd /initrd-2.4.18-14.img' if you have default Redhat install. Does the /boot/initrd-2.4.18-14.img' file exist? It could be corrupted so you may have to rescue and make a new one. Kevin Brouelette, RHCE -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
