[wplug] kernel not loading after partitioning hard drive

[rkalaskar]

Vanco, Donald wrote:

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Paul Cantalupo [mailto:lupey+ at pitt.edu] 
>>Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 10:54 AM
>>To: wplug at wplug.org
>>Subject: Re: [wplug] kernel not loading after partitioning hard drive
>>
>>
>>"Vanco, Donald" wrote:
>>
>>>Did you move the kernels beyond 1024 cylinders when you 
>>>
>>repartitioned?  If
>>
>>>so - lilo cannot find them anymore...
>>>
>>I actually moved the root partition towards the beginning of 
>>the hard drive
>>so I don't think this is a problem. In any event, I don't 
>>think the LILO
>>version that I am using cares about the 1024 cylinder problem 
>>as far as I've
>>been able to understand.  Please let me know if I am wrong in 
>>assuming this.
>>
>>
>>FYI, my hard drive is approx 40 GB and my root partition 
>>starts around 14GB.
>>My root partition *was* started around 20GB before the repartitioning.
>>
>	Hmm - what distro?  If Red Hat 7.3 or it's ilk do you know if your
>partition table / fstab relied on labels as opposed to device calls?  You
>did copy off fstab and do a print of fdisk -l - right?
>	The fact that one kernel boots and the other kernel hangs (it's not
>a LILO thing if you get to "Loading....." - dunno where my head was) tells
>me that it's likely a partition (or possibly mkinitrd?) thing.
>
    I bet this has nothing to do with boot parition size/location. I had 
the same problem with a  kernel I was compiling. It used to hang after 
 "Loading ...".  I found the problem to be with the initrd.img.gz.   I 
used mkinitrd to make the initial ram disk, and the problem disappeared.

>
>	Do you have a boot floppy that's functional?
>
>	Do you have a rescue CD or disk one from a RH7.x/8.0 set?  If so -
>boot it into rescue mode and look at the partitions and fstab, and your
>lilo.conf and perhaps re-run lilo as needed....
>
>Don
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