Very Computer

 At the Grub command prompt, do these commands in order:
 root (hd1,0)
 setup (hd1,0)
 kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 ro
 boot

Once I select boot, the startup process hangs and give me the message:
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:03

If I turn the computer off, and turn on again, the grup menu is restored but
when I try to stratup linux it give me error about not being able to mount
my /root.

Here is what my partition table looked like
dev/hda1 * 1 2317 17516488+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 2522 2535 205840 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 2536 3807 9616320 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 3808 3876 521640 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 3808 3876 521608+ 82 Linux swap

Any idea on how to solve this.

--
Marcio DeBarros

PO Box 324532 Georgia Tech Station
Atlanta, GA 30332-1010

Quote:> After I had some problems with mutli-partitioning  my hard drive, I lost
the
> ability to boot Linux because grub was somehow afected in the process. I
> found some information on the web on how to restore it, which is pretty
much
> the following:

>  At the Grub command prompt, do these commands in order:
>  root (hd1,0)
>  setup (hd1,0)
>  kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 ro
>  boot

Quote:> Once I select boot, the startup process hangs and give me the message:
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:03

> If I turn the computer off, and turn on again, the grup menu is restored
but
> when I try to stratup linux it give me error about not being able to mount
> my /root.

> Here is what my partition table looked like
> dev/hda1 * 1 2317 17516488+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda2 2522 2535 205840 83 Linux
> /dev/hda3 2536 3807 9616320 83 Linux
> /dev/hda4 3808 3876 521640 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/hda5 3808 3876 521608+ 82 Linux swap

> Any idea on how to solve this.

Quote:> Here is what my partition table looked like
> dev/hda1 * 1 2317 17516488+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Quote:> /dev/hda2 2522 2535 205840 83 Linux
> /dev/hda3 2536 3807 9616320 83 Linux

Quote:> /dev/hda4 3808 3876 521640 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/hda5 3808 3876 521608+ 82 Linux swap
> Any idea on how to solve this.

Anyway, boot with the right root= line, and have an end to it!

Peter

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Timothy Murphy  

tel: 086-233 6090
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

Here is what I'm (or was) trying to do: The first partition is indeed
where Windows XP is installed. I was looking into creating a FAT
partition so I could swap files between WinXP and Linux. By doing
that I would end up with more that 4 primary or extende partitions
so I used a program similar to Partition Magic to handle that. Once that
happened the new FAT partition was created between the WinXP (hda1) and
the first partition created by Linux (hda2 on the table below). I moved
this partition to the end of the the list and also a small (7 MB)
partition was created to hold the MBR create bu the program. Now, when
this program created its own MBR, its when I started to not be able to
access Linux.

Marcio Teixeira DeBarros
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332

There is only one disk on the system. I mistyped where it
actually it should be (hd0,XX).

Marcio Teixeira DeBarros
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332

Quote:>Here is what I'm (or was) trying to do: The first partition is indeed
>where Windows XP is installed. I was looking into creating a FAT
>partition so I could swap files between WinXP and Linux. By doing
>that I would end up with more that 4 primary or extende partitions
>so I used a program similar to Partition Magic to handle that. Once that
>happened the new FAT partition was created between the WinXP (hda1) and
>the first partition created by Linux (hda2 on the table below). I moved
>this partition to the end of the the list and also a small (7 MB)
>partition was created to hold the MBR create bu the program. Now, when
>this program created its own MBR, its when I started to not be able to
>access Linux.