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Okay, I installed Slackware 3.0 on a 486/120 with 40mb RAM, a Quantum
Grand Prix 4 gig, Adaptec AHA2940 PCI scsi host adapter, and SMC
EtherPower PCI network card.

Installation of the A package (a1-a5) was fine. However, at bootup, i get
a kernel panic while trying to mount the root drive.

"kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root FS on 08:01"

Right before I get this error message, it announces that this is Linux
1.2.13. Is it because the kernel doesn't support the adaptec 2940?
Does anyone have any ideas what is wrong? Or the proper bootup
parameters I can use with lilo? Thanks.

David

Well, maybe it's because Patrick Volkerding (sp?) thought that 1.3 is an
experimental kernel and woulnd't be appropriate for a final, "stable"
release

Quote:>Solution: boot up with your AHA2940 and type mount root=/dev/sda1 ro  
>at the boot prompt..

It won't boot up from my scsi drive. Do you mean boot up with the
bootdisk (i'm using the "ascsi" boot floppy)?

Quote:>Then mount your floppy mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt and cp /mnt/vmlinux
>to /vmlinux... this will put that kernel on your root partition..  

Typing "mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt" doesn't work. I get a "mount:wrong
fs type or bad superblock on /dev/fd0". Didn't someone on this newsgroup
say that you have to type in the real name of the floppydrive?

Quote:>This finally worked on mine; now I am trying to re-compile my kernel
>to add support for network cards, etc.. with no luck.. let me know if
>you get that far.

Thanks a lot for your help. Be glad to share whatever I know. What kind of
ethernet card are you using? I'm using the SMC EtherPower PCI card and
lord knows, I know it's going to be a multi-week effort..

Dave

My last post stated that I didn't know why the setup installed 1.2.13
even though the aha2940 boot disk was 1.3.18.. well ,  I think I
figured it out;  you have to choose the kernel you want from the Q
series during setup...I chose asciint1 and it worked fine.

Andy