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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Re: [oclug] PANIC, My Suse 9.1 Update did not work.....

Brenda J. Butler wrote:
Charles,


I made a directory at /mnt on the ramdisk, and mounted the first one. It also has a set of "/" directories the biggest being /dev

There is a /boot directory which has a vmlinuz file pointing to what looks like a kernel

I exited the rescue system, and restarted the machine, at the grub prompt I tried giving the kernel command as

kernel /dev/hda1/boot/vmlinuz



The grub stanza should have an item that says

    root   (hd0,0)

That's what refers to the partition.
So, the kernel line only has to say

    kernel /boot/vmlinuz


Trying that at the GRUB prompt gives

Error 17: Cannot mount Selected partition.



Also, if you have an initrd, there should be another line
that says

    initrd   /boot/initrd.img

cheerio,
bjb




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