[SOLUTION] Cannot mount root device

From: Andre Belem (abelem@awi-bremerhaven.de)
Date: Wed Nov 29 2000 - 00:31:27 PST

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    From: "Andre Belem" <abelem@awi-bremerhaven.de>
Message-ID: <36e0b362d6.362d636e0b@awi-bremerhaven.de>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:31:27 +0100
Subject: [SOLUTION] Cannot mount root device

    Thanks for Thorsten Kukuk for the answer.

    Problem: Installing SuSE 7.0 on my Ultra 60 I got an error after
    rebooting the machine. Tipical from a newbie (!).
    Using the default installation (just pressing enter and leaving YaST2 to
    work alone), the silo was installed with a wrong setup and without
    initrd. Why ? Only God knows the answer !

    Solution:
    Using the SuSE CD1 (boot cdrom), I canceled the installation and booted
    into linuxrc. Under the menu "boot installed system" I got the system
    working (my root partition was /dev/sda1, but silo had a wrong pointer
    to /dev/sda5).
    The problem was, the YaST2 didn't installed silo correctly and an initrd
    was missing.
    I checked if /etc/rc.config had a line with INITRD_MODULES="sym53c8xx".
    After that, I used "mk_initrd" to create a initrd block and renewed
    /etc/silo.conf with the right partiion and initrd.
    Run silo and !prima! the system works again.

    Have fun !
    Andre

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