Installation prob with RHEL4.0

[swisschock]

Hi all
I am a newbie in Linux
I have installd new RAM of 1 GB
I istalld RHEL4.0 on SATA HD with disk druid ystrday but after rebooting
it showed this error

mkrootdev: label / not found
Mounting root filesystem
mount: error 2 mounting ext3
mount: error 2 mounting none
Switching to new root
switchroot: mount failed: 22
umount /initrd/dev failed: 2
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

can anyone tell me what to do?

[devils casper]

Have you tried older RAM again? Is it booting up fine with that?

[swisschock]

hi,
i tried 2 figure out that maybe the boot loader wasnt finding the MBR to boot from.
while installing the options presented to me were:
"YOUR BOOT LOADER WILL BE INSTALLED ON /dev/hdi (which is my IDE HD)"
will this mean that my WinXP wll be replaced by RHEL's KERNEL?
i did not take a chance & removed the power cable of my IDE HD & tried installing a fresh copy of Linux 4 onto the primary partion but after all the long installation process & reboot, "KERNEL PANIC" error again.
& wats with the installation? my colleagues seem to instal it successfully...


my SATA HD is Seagate /dev/hdg & IDE HD is samsung /dev/hdi
while manual partitioning i have done the follwng:
/ (system root) 6gb primary partition
/boot 500mb prim partition
/swap 2gb (twice my ram)
/vfat 2gb
1st i chose / as location of grub boot loader--> same error
next i chose /boot as location grub boot loader--> same error
next i connected the powr cable back to my ide hd & chose the default /dev/hdi (ide hd) as my location for boot loader
while booting it shows 3 OS choices:
1 RHEL smp --> KERNEL PANIC
2 RHEL up ro root (or something) --> KERNEL PANIC
3 Other (Win XP) which boots fine after it is selected

can any1 tel me JUST WHERE am i going wrong?
pls help.

[devils casper]

Boot up from any LiveCD and execute fdisk -l command. Post output here.

[swisschock]

hi,

i read about LiveCD 4 da 1st time & think it to be like VirtualPC concept in Windows.
Which one to download:
"olpc-redhat-stream-sdk-build-385-20070407_0019-livecd.iso"? Its abt 300MB
There is a huge list.


2nd doubt:
I have also dwnloaded an RPM file frm VMWare site:
VMware-workstation-6.0.2-59824.i386.rpm (for Linux) {So (as i heard) again it is a kind of VirtualPC tool}. I think it Will be recognised only after installing RHEL4.0. Then will i hav 2 deploy this package & run VMWare by loading Linux on a Virtual platform?
will u please tell me its exact function & how to operate on it?

thanks for ur precious comments

[swisschock]

hi
how do i take the screen shots of the installation & post it here?

[gopinathansk]

Hi all
I am a newbie in Linux
I have installd new RAM of 1 GB
I istalld RHEL4.0 on SATA HD with disk druid ystrday but after rebooting
it showed this error

mkrootdev: label / not found
Mounting root filesystem
mount: error 2 mounting ext3
mount: error 2 mounting none
Switching to new root
switchroot: mount failed: 22
umount /initrd/dev failed: 2
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

can anyone tell me what to do?

hi,
when i am installing red hat enterpise version 4 in sata hard disk, some error occured like driver not found.then it will restarted.how to solve this problem?

[devils casper]

Type linux all-generic-ide at boot prompt.