Re: mount: error 2 mounting ext3

[David Balazic]

Erik Wanta wrote:
> 
>               Dell Lattitude LS
>               IBM 20 GB IC25N020ATCS05-0 HD
> 
>               I install RH 8.0. I create 2 partitions:
>               hda1 18G /
>               hda2 2G swap
> 
>               Everything seems to install correctly. I
>               reboot and get:
>               ...
>               Creating block devices
>               Creating root device
>               mkrootdev: label / not found
>               Mounting root filesystem
>               mount: error 2 mounting ext3
>               pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,
>               /sysroot/initrd) failed: 2
>               umount /initrd/proc failed: 2
>               Freeing unused memory: 212k freed
>               Kernel Panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to
> kernel
> 
>               I reinstall and select default partitioning and get the
> same result.
> 
>               Where I have been so far:
>               http://www.divisionbyzero.com/laptop/
>               http://www.foottit.com/software/linux_on_latitude.html
>               http://www.met.ed.ac.uk/~hcp/lst.html
>               http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/39578
> 
> http://linux.marxmeier.com/lvm_mlist/archive/2003/01/0039.html
>               http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/1/3/133839/6675
>               http://www.computing.net/linux/wwwboard/forum/17830.html
> 
> https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/ext3-users/2002-May/003580.html
> 
> http://groups.google.com/groups?q=EXT3+Tina&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=gQ%25R9.48%2\
> 
>               4GU4.2724%40newsfep1-gui.server.ntli.net&rnum=1
> 
> http://www.kclug.org/old_archives/linux-activists/1992/mar/2/0171.shtml
> 
> http://groups.google.com/groups?q=mount:+error+2+mounting+ext3+group:alt.os.linu\
> 
> x.*&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=pan.2002.11.28.04.24.55.653890%40diesel-research.com\
> 
>               &rnum=2
> 
> http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22error+2+mounting%22+group:comp.os.linux.*&h\
> 
> l=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=1cf0b4c8.0212111527.1ec7e5b3%40posting.google.com&rnum=1
> 
> Note that LILO works without issue and is what I ended up using.

Post your lilo.conf and grub.conf.

>From the error message it seems that the root file system has no label.
Check by running "e2label /dev/hda1" and post us what it prints.

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David Balazic
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