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New to linux and attempting to install Caldera OpenLinux on a system with an
AMD-K5-PR100 CPU, a EXP8661 ver 1.3 Motherboard and a Conner Perpipherals
CFS541A (540MB) with a Primary DOS partition and an Extended DOS partition
and when booting from install disc I am being confronted with the following
:

Quote:>>>kernel: check disk partition tables<<<

Partition check:
  hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 >
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
invalid compressed format (err=2)

Quote:>>>kernel: mounting root filesystem<<<

VFS: Cannot open root device 08:02
kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:02

At this point the system halts.

Can anybody offer a solution?

Thanks.

Quote:Brian McDonald wrote...
>New to linux and attempting to install Caldera OpenLinux on a system with
an
>AMD-K5-PR100 CPU, a EXP8661 ver 1.3 Motherboard and a Conner Perpipherals
>CFS541A (540MB) with a Primary DOS partition and an Extended DOS partition
>and when booting from install disc I am being confronted with the following

>>>>kernel: check disk partition tables<<<
>Partition check:
>  hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 >
>RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
>invalid compressed format (err=2)
>>>>kernel: mounting root filesystem<<<
>VFS: Cannot open root device 08:02
>kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:02

I am tempted to say RTFM, but I'm feeling helpful.

The precompiled kernel you are using is set to use device major 8 minor 2 as
its root partition.  This is a SCSI device, which presumably you don't have.
You will need to tell the kernel specifically which device to use as root,
which I guess will be the ramdisk.

You can probably achieve all this with a LILO boot: command.  I respectfully
suggest that you read the LILO documentation on how to do this, as you will
probably solve a lot of other problems at the same time.

Good luck

Daniel.