On Wed, 14 May 2003, Tammy Fox wrote: >On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 11:22:34PM -0700, Oisin C. Feeley wrote: >> >> I was trying to rescue a Red Hat 7.3 laptop using a Red Hat 9 CD#1. >> Should this be possible? >> >> If I try to boot into rescue mode using CD#1 on a PCMCIA CDROM the boot >> process gets as far as allowing language selection and then asks for the >> location of the rescue image. If I select CDROM then it fails to find >> the device. <snip> > It is asking for a location of a valid installation tree: > > http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide > /s1-rescuemode-boot.html> > > Definition of installation tree: > > http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/install-guide > /s1-begininstall-net.html > Thanks Tammy, the problem is that the laptop is non-networked and has a PCMCIA CD-ROM. So, any install tree has to come from CD#1. When I select CD-ROM as the location of the rescue image the "no device found" problem occurs. I was guessing that this was due to the kernel included in isolinux/ not being patched for PCMCIA support in the way that A. van der Ven's 2.4.20-9.5 is. So I copied 2.4.20-9.5 over isolinux/vmlinuz and rebuilt the entire CD#1 using mkisofs This new CD#1 will get as far as trying to load the initrd and then giving up with a kernel panic. pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot, /sysroot/initrd) failed: 2 umount /initrd/proc failed: 2 Freeing unused kernel memory 132K freed Kernel panic: no init found. Try passing init=option to kernel Am I totally missing your point? Is this attempt to build a CD#1 with an updated kernel completely flawed. I am really at sea here and would appreciate anyone's advice. I've looked at Tony Nugent's "Kickstart Customization" guide and the RH-CD-Mini-HOWTO, which both appear to deal with pre-isolinux versions of RH. Thanks, Oisin Feeley
