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Root Mount problem

Post by Bruce » Mon, 22 Jan 2001 11:30:53



Though my Mandrake system was working fine, Partition Magic
indicated that the partition table was corrupted.  I was told by
their support staff that I would have to reformat.

To make a long story short, I backed up my /boot and / partitions
with ghost (actually ghostpe), fixed the partitions, and reloaded
/boot and /, and recreated the swap partition with Partition Magic.

When booting Linux all seems fine until I get a kernal panic:
   <it sees ide0 (hard disk) and ide1 (cd-rom)>
  Partition check
    hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 >
  autorun ...
  ... autorun DONE
  Kernal panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:07
  ...<hang>...
  <ctrl><alt><del>
  stopping all md devices

I'm not sure what 03:07 indicates...

My disk is dual boot with Win98.
  C: fat32, primary partition
  Extended fat32, extended partition containing:
                 cyl,hd, sector
  /boot          586, 1, 1
  /              594, 1, 1
  <swap>         871, 1, 1
  /home          941, 1, 1
  D:            1172, 1, 1

Can anyone give assistance?

Thanks.

-bruceh-

 
 
 
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Root Mount problem

Post by Eric » Tue, 23 Jan 2001 19:12:19


Quote:>   Kernal panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:07
>   ...<hang>...
>   <ctrl><alt><del>
>   stopping all md devices

> I'm not sure what 03:07 indicates...

It indicates hda7
This should be hda6 according to your partition table.

Quote:> My disk is dual boot with Win98.
>   C: fat32, primary partition
>   Extended fat32, extended partition containing:
>                  cyl,hd, sector
>   /boot          586, 1, 1
>   /              594, 1, 1
>   <swap>         871, 1, 1
>   /home          941, 1, 1
>   D:            1172, 1, 1

Forgot to update lilo.conf?

try "linux root=/dev/hda6" when the lilo prompt appears.

Eric

 
 
 
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1. Root Mounting Problem - Please Assist!

I have a:

486 DX4/100
2.1G Western Digital HD
24MB RAM
Award BIOS 4.50G
Mitsumi 8X IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM

When I try to install Linux Slackware 3.2, I use the bootdisk to boot-up
like normal. The CD-ROM is detected, and everything seems to boot
normally.

It then asks me to insert the rootdisk. I insert it, press ENTER, and it says:

JAVA Binary Support v1.01 for Linux 1.3.98 (C)1996 Brian A. Lantz
VFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER

So I press ENTER again... And it goes thru a bunch of hooey including:

BEGIN
---
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:1c, sector 2
EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock
floppy0: disk absent or changed during operation
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:1c, sector 2
MINIX-fs: unable to read superblock
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:1c, sector 0
FAT bread failed
UMSDOS Beta 0.6 (compatibility level 0.4, fast msdos)
floppy0: disk absent or changed during operation
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:1c, sector 0
FAT bread failed
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:1c, sector 0
FAT bread failed
floppy0: disk absent or changed during operation
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:1c sector 64
isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev 02:1c iso_blknum 16 block 32
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 02:1c

---
END

And then the computer just freezes....
Any ideas of what might be causing this???

Thanx,

-Brian Jones

--

Computer and Information Science Major --

"I don't want the world, I just want your half." -TMBG

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