by I am new here; perhaps someone will assist me.
I am attempting to turn my AMD 386DX/40 based pc into an Intranet
server, running a Linux os.
I have two ide fixed disk drives in the box, and a new ide cd-rom
(Pioneer dr-511) The sound card the cd is attached is an imitation
Sound Bl;aster Pro. My A: is 5.25" 1.2 MB; B: is 3.5" 1.44 MB.
The C: is a Western Digital, running Ontrack Software Drive Manager to
allow me access to more than the first half. It has one Pri DOS
partition of 80 MB, which I have Win 95 installed in.
The D: ( a separate physical drive) is a 240 MB Samsung.
After a week of fiddling (which involved replacing the original SB 16 &
the old Teac 4Xish CD drive) I am able to boot in DOS 6.22 with a disk
in the a:
I get through the query process, making different choices each time for
the two options I am unsure of (CD Drive & CD interface), and answer yes
to the question "Do you want to boot Linux now...etc."
It starts to go to work, uncompressing Linux, and then it stalls,
invariably, with the following message, or one similar (The numbers
change, likely depending on which options I selected)
"Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 16:00"
What does this mean, exactly?
I am guessing that the root file system is having trouble finding a
home, so to speak, but I want to know what I can do about it. The book
seems to no help; but maybe I am looking in the wrong place?
Thanks.
ms