[TriLUG] Issues with my dual boot..

[Dave Sorenson]

That is why I removed my HD when I had to have my dvd/CD-RW drive 
replaced. Compaq told me they would replace the CD drive, wipe the HD 
and reload XP. I asked why they needed to do that and they said "thats 
just the way it works." If it had not been under warranty I would have 
hung up on em. They said I could restore from my backups until I pointed 
out that without a working CDR it was kinda hard to make backups of the 
stuff I had worked on between the last backups and the time I noticed 
the failure of the burner.

Gotta love the customer no-service

Dave

dsandif wrote:
> Hey there!
>
> I have a IBM T60 laptop running both Windows XP Pro and Redhat 
> Enterprise Linux WS 4, kernel 2.6.9-42.0.3. I had to have some work 
> done on the the screen which ended up being replaced.
> When I got the laptop back, I booted it up into Windows fine. However, 
> when I tried to boot into the linux side, I got the following error:
>
>
> Booting 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (2.6.9-42.0.3.EL)'
>
> root (hd0,1)
> Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet
>  [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0x16deb0]
> initrd /initrd-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL.img
>  [Linux-initrd @ 0x37f74000, 07b8ba bytes]
>
> Uncompressing Linux...OK, booting the kernel.
> ide0: I/O resource 0x1F0-0x1F7 not free.
> ise0: ports already in use, skipping probe
> Red Hat nash version 4.2.1.8 starting
> mkrootdev: label /1 not found
> mount: error 2 mounting ext3
> mount: error 2 mounting none
> switchroot: mount failed: 22
> unmount /initrd/dev failed: 2
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
>
>
> Thats it. I am going to try booting  from a Knoppix Live-CD to see if 
> I can access the partitions and data, attach a  usb hard drive and 
> save what I can but any input and suggestions as to how I can fix this 
> are
> heartily welcomed. Thanks to all.
>
> dsandif-