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by **David P. Ad** » Thu, 15 Apr 1999 04:00:00

I tried to upgrade my RH5.2 to 5.9 (Starbuck). The upgrade process
produced some errors the first time, so I repeated it and ended up
with (I thought) a complete upgrade (i.e., no errors on the second
time through).
Starbuck begins to load just fine, with "OK" messages for all the
steps of the load prior to linuxconf, which hangs, at least for an
hour or two... No joy.
So, I turn to the rescue disk. Using the boot disk created during the
upgrade, I ask for rescue. After the kernel loads, I am asked to
insert the ROOT disk in /dev/fd0, at which time I insert the rescue
disk copied from rescue.img on the CD. This produces the message
"Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 02:00"

I have tried different floppies for the rescue disk, as well as
different block lengths (72k and 1440 k), all to no avail. My next
step will be to start all over with a clean install, unless one of you
smart and kind folks can suggest a neater way to dig myself out of
this hole. Thanks for reading this far!

by **Robert Lync** » Thu, 15 Apr 1999 04:00:00

[posted and e-mailed]
I'd go to:

http://www.veryComputer.com/

and make a root boot diskette (which can be done from DOS, if
necessary).

Recovery from there is up to you and your skills. If you are running RH
5.9, these should be plenty good, cause it is definitely a beta distro.

HTH.

Bob L.
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http://www.veryComputer.com/~rm*/
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> I tried to upgrade my RH5.2 to 5.9 (Starbuck). The upgrade process
> produced some errors the first time, so I repeated it and ended up
> with (I thought) a complete upgrade (i.e., no errors on the second
> time through).
> Starbuck begins to load just fine, with "OK" messages for all the
> steps of the load prior to linuxconf, which hangs, at least for an
> hour or two... No joy.
> So, I turn to the rescue disk. Using the boot disk created during the
> upgrade, I ask for rescue. After the kernel loads, I am asked to
> insert the ROOT disk in /dev/fd0, at which time I insert the rescue
> disk copied from rescue.img on the CD. This produces the message
> "Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 02:00"

> I have tried different floppies for the rescue disk, as well as
> different block lengths (72k and 1440 k), all to no avail. My next
> step will be to start all over with a clean install, unless one of you
> smart and kind folks can suggest a neater way to dig myself out of
> this hole. Thanks for reading this far!

by **David P. Ad** » Thu, 15 Apr 1999 04:00:00

Solution, after several attempts:

Do a full install of Starbuck, and specify that linuxconf is NOT to be
automatically run on startup. This leads to a successful boot of the
system and allows me to log in.

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Starbuck won't boot, rescue disk won't mount

Starbuck won't boot, rescue disk won't mount

Starbuck won't boot, rescue disk won't mount

Starbuck won't boot, rescue disk won't mount