ok, i just put in a new 120gb hard drive, and formatted it fat32 so it can be accessable in both windows and linux. i am running mandrake 9.1 and set the hard drive so it is the secondary slave, and my primary hard drive is the secondary master. windows loads fine, but linux gives me this error, and i have no clue what to do hd6: bad access: block=2, count=2 mount: error 22 mounting ext2 flags kernel panic: no init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. i cant even get anything to work, it goes to that in the loader. can anyone tell me what i need to do to get mandrake running again? i would guess that i would need to 'try passing init=' to the kernel, but i dont know how, and dont really even know what that means, so if possible, can you please leave some detail. thank you

Might try running an upgrade. That will rewright your boot looader.

If you want to get answers, you'll have to ask good questions. You didn't tell us o) what partition was your linux on before you added the 120GB hdd and where is it now (ide0, ide1, master, slave, partition) o) what bootloader do you use? o) the quote "hd6: bad access: block=2, count=2" is missing the drive letter. hd6 does not exist and it is probably hdc6 or something similar.

my partition of linux was on the secondary master... my bootloader is lilo that came with mandrake 9.1. and i think i need a md9.1 boot disk, but i never made one....

You want to use the init switch to point lilo to where your root partition is, eg if it is the sixth partition on the secondary slave: linux init=/dev/hdd6

i agree with markp1313. when funny things happen to my mandrake install, i pop in cd1, boot from it, select upgrade and it generally straightens things out in a couple of minutes. not an ideal solution, but it will pick up any new hardware and rewrite your lilo.conf accordingly so that it can boot properly.