Error booting from Linux device

[Darrel Louis]

Hello All,

I've installed Redhat 7.0 on a Vectra VL 400.
This is a Dual boot system:
- Windows 2000 Pro
- Linux Redhat 7.0

When I boot from my linux partition I get the following error
Checking Root Filesystem
/dev/hda2 is mounted. Cannot continue, aborting.

In my lilo.conf file I've the read-only line.
I've gone in the maintenance mode, unmounted the device and ran a "fsck". But this didn't help aswell.
What have I done wrong?

[Darrel Louis]

Hi,

The message before the cannot continue error, I see the following:

Couldn't find valid ramdisk image starting at 0

[Bryce Dunn]

Not sure if this is related at all, but if you need to use a kernel module for your boot disk then you need to make an inital ramdisk (initrd file)

also, your boot partition cannot be bigger than a certain size.

[Darrel Louis]

Hello,

I've solved it as follow:
Reinstalled Linux, but did the partition differently.
First used FDISK to recreate the partition
Than with DRUID created my Linux filesystems.
After that the startup went oke.

Thanx

[Darrel Louis]

Thanks