Linuxhelp > Fresh Install Wont Boot

psychoticj

Nov 30 2005, 01:05 PM

ok i bought a new WD 120 gig hd and installed in my gateway w/ P3 450 192megs of ram and a 9 gig hs w/ winxp alerady installed on a ultra 66 card.
I then d/led mandrake 10.1 and md5sum said ok. I'm install linux on the new hd. It installed fine as long as the hd was on the primary ide. but after installation it wont boot and i get this error.

CODE

starting udev
creating root device
mounting root device
mount: error 6 mounting ext3 flags defualt
will retry with no option flags
mount: error 6 mounting ext3
will retry read-only without flags
mount: error 6 mounting ext3
pivotroot: pivot _root (/sysroot, /sysroot/initrd)failed:2
umount /initrd/sys failed:2
umount /initrd/proc failed:2
initrd finished
freeing unused kernal memory : 200k freed
kernal panic : no init found
try passing init = option to kernal

psychoticj

Nov 30 2005, 01:07 PM

sorry about the 3 posts but i got an error saying could not send mail for some reason when i hit post

Jim

Nov 30 2005, 05:32 PM

Onboard RAID? If you are using onboard RAID you're in trouble, if you have it, but aren't using it, dissable it in the BIOS and it should boot up just fine.

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