Problem booting Mandriva 2009.1

[kowalsky]

Hi All,

 

I'm facing a strange problem after istalling Mandriva 2009.1 on my desktop.

It has two Maxtor internal drives and is configured as follow:

 

Hda1 Windoze

 

Hda5 Mandriva 2006

 

Hdb1 Mandriva 2008.1

 

Hdb5 Mandriva 2009.1

 

I've been able to boot almost every system Windoze, Mandriva2006, Mandriva2008 up to now just adding a new stanza in the LILO conf but not the Mandriva2009 partition.

 

The boot starts but at certain point it issues the message 'Waiting for root device to appear' and next I get kernel panic.

 

Here is my lilo.conf

# File generated by DrakX/drakboot
# WARNING: do not forget to run lilo after modifying this file

default="2617-1custom"
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
keytable=/boot/it-latin1.klt
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
prompt
nowarn
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-1mdkcustom
       label="2617-1custom"
       root=/dev/hda5
       initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.17-1mdkcustom.img
       append="resume=/dev/hda6 splash=silent"
       vga=788
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-1mdk
       label="2617-1"
       root=/dev/hda5
       initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.17-1mdk.img
       append="resume=/dev/hda6 splash=silent"
       vga=788
image=/mnt/maxtor/boot/vmlinuz
       label="Mdv2008-1"
       root=/dev/hdb1
       initrd=/mnt/maxtor/boot/initrd.img
       append="resume=/dev/hda6 splash=silent"
       vga=788
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-15mdk
       label="2612-15"
       root=/dev/hda5
       initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.12-15mdk.img
       append="resume=/dev/hda6 splash=silent"
       vga=788
image=/boot/vmlinuz
       label="linux"
       root=/dev/hda5
       initrd=/boot/initrd.img
       append="resume=/dev/hda6 splash=silent"
       vga=788
image=/boot/vmlinuz
       label="linux-nonfb"
       root=/dev/hda5
       initrd=/boot/initrd.img
       append="resume=/dev/hda6"
image=/boot/vmlinuz
       label="failsafe"
       root=/dev/hda5
       initrd=/boot/initrd.img
       append="failsafe resume=/dev/hda6"
image=/mnt/systest/boot/vmlinuz
       label="Mdv2009-1"
       root=/dev/hdb5
       initrd=/mnt/systest/boot/initrd.img
       append="resume=/dev/hda6 splash=silent"
       vga=788
other=/dev/hda1
       label="windows"
       table=/dev/hda

 

To get the Mandriva2009.1 booting I've started the Mdv2008 image and then created a grub boot floppy able to boot both the Mdv2008 and the Mdv2009 partitions.

 

I cannot replace this loader over the current LILO because up to now using this floppy I cannot boot the Mandriva2006 image :(., receiving a kernel panic on startup.

 

I would prefer continuing to use my old lilo to boot ALL the systems, if possible.

 

Any suggestion?

 

Tks in advance

 

Roberto

[kowalsky]

Hi All,

after dozens of system reboot I've found an acceptable solution to boot all my Mandriva partitions.

 

There is no way, at least up to now for me, to boot a Mandriva 2009 system using the Mandriva 2006 Lilo as loader (my current one). I'm always getting a kernel panic after attempting to load the root device and receiving error 22 at switchroot time.

And I've non found a way to boot Mandriva 2006 using the Grub loader in the Mandriva 2009 partition, receiving also a kernel panic message.

 

But the Mandriva 2008 Grub loader works for all the three Mandriva flavours.

Only, configuring the menu.lst, I MUST use the root=/dev/hdxy to indicate the Mandriva 2006 root, and the

ROOT=UUID=blablabla.... to indicate the 2008 and 2009 root partitions.

 

Rgds

 

Roberto

Edited September 24, 2009 by kowalsky

[scarecrow]

Apart from the solution you chose, there's another one: reinstalling grub/lilo to your root partition(s), and using a third party primary loader.

GAG is a good one.

[xboxboy]

I had a similar problem when I installed 2008 I think it was. I use grub. In the end I used the boot loader installed with 2008, and modified that rather than modify the existing setup.

[kowalsky]

Apart from the solution you chose, there's another one: reinstalling grub/lilo to your root partition(s), and using a third party primary loader.

GAG is a good one.

Scarecrow, tks for your reply.

I know that I could use other boot loaders like GAG (In the remote part I've also used the OS/2 boot loader to wake up my multiboot desktop/laptop), but this time I was looking for a native linux solution to boot my Mandriva partitions.

The matter was only understand if in the next future I should take much more care handling the loader after fresh Mandriva installations, installing the bootloader on a floppy, for example, and test it, before destroying my mbr.

 

Anyway tks again for your reply.

 

I think this thread could be closed now.

 

Roberto

 

 

p.s. I've got exactly the same problem installing both the Mandriva One 2009.1 Kde and/or the Mandrriva 2009.1 Free DVD

Edited September 25, 2009 by kowalsky