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SuSe 9.1 Installation Problem - /sbin/mkinitrd line 763 mount : command not found

Hi experts,

I am having troubles installing Suse 9.1 Personal. It generates the '/sbin/mkinitrd line 763 mount : command not found' error message during installation and when I ignored them, it failed to boot the second time with an error message something like "kernel panic : cannot mount root on hda2". I've tried various partitions, played with both lilo and grub and even format the harddrive to do a clean install but still no luck! Please help me on this issue. Thank you very much.

Kevin

Gns

I'll start by saying this: I've not installed this particular incarnation of SuSE, so has not seen it's installer in action....
But...
This looks like the mkinitrd command is failing to create an "initial ram disk" (a file containing a filesystem, some tools to "preload" kernel modules, and the needed kernel modules... This all so that you don't have to rebuild the kernel just because you added a SCSI drive to boot from... or similar:-). Seems like mkinitrd cannot find the mount executable for some reason.
Might be because of a "bad" mkinitrd package from suse, so check their errata... There might be updated boot options.

-- Glenn

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Gns

Aw, so my explanation of the problem is too far from a "solution" to even merit a mention:-):-).
Seriously though, that's perfectly fine with me.

-- Glenn