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kevinlyfellow
June 6th, 2007, 01:56 AM
I decided to dual boot my machine and give fedora7 a shot on the hd. I installed it but kept my grub that Ubuntu setup. Trying to get fedora to work my grub entry reads

title Fedora7
root (hd0,3)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img


But when I boot with this, I get kernel panic. Here is the error messages I recieve

Mounting root filesystem.
mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root'
Setting up other filesystems.
Setting up new root fs
setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory
no fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults
setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory
setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory
Switching to new root and running init.
unmounting old /dev
unmounting old /proc
unmounting old /sys
switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory
Booting has failed
Kernel panic -- not syncing: Attempted to kill init!


I found out that naming it
title Fedora 7 would cause problems, but is there something else I've got wrong in my grub entry or is there a different issue?
kvonb
June 6th, 2007, 02:11 AM
It's the Fedora mob's way of getting their daily fill of "I'm better than everyone else", all prospective new users are given a random problem so they have to go to the Fedora forum and ask for help. Then they can all scream in harmony: "RTFM!!!" hahahah.

But seriously, if you can boot into Ubuntu, try running

sudo update-grub

That should rebuild the menu.lst with all the correct entries.
kevinlyfellow
June 6th, 2007, 04:13 AM
Haha... I've been there before a while ago, I'd hope things changed! I guess not...

So I updated grub and redhat wasn't found. While "RingTFM" on grub-update it seems like it only scans /boot but I don't have a seperate boot partition.

My setup has two root partitions, one for Ubuntu and one for Fedora. Then /home will be shared (with two different folders for the users) and of course the swap.

Looking at the error messages, is Fedora expecting that I have several different partitions setup for different folders?
kevinlyfellow
June 6th, 2007, 04:36 AM
Fixed!!!

I needed to tell it what my root device was. It thought that the root device was /dev/root. In other words I needed the kernel parameter root=/dev/sda4

Thanks for your help kvonb

Edit: BTW I love the new intel graphics driver