On Feb 4, 2008 9:40 AM, Easwar Hariharan meindian523@gmail.com wrote:
Also I re-tried Osric's method without using sudo update-grub which I'd done last time in the hope that it would prove to be the stumbling block.
But no go,it still can't find a valid block device for root.I tried giving it (Xd0,Y) where I put both "s" and "h" for X and "8" and "9" for Y.No go,it still gets a kernel panic attempting to kill init.
Regards, Easwar
Ahem, have you tried booting manually from the grub prompt ? 1. enter the root ( ... ) line 2. <tab> <tab> should show you how it recognizes the devices or if it indeed does. 3. Likely its a sata drive whose module / support is not compiled into the live cd.
Just my 2 paise !
regards, C