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by **Bryce Thornto** » Mon, 01 Nov 1999 03:00:00

I have been trying to install Red Hat Linux 6.0 for a long time now. I
have an Ultra ATA 66 Hard Drive that caused a lot of problems. Well, I
finally figured out how to make linux recognize my hard drive and got it
to install the files. Now, when I go to boot up Linux it gives me the
following error.

request-module[block-major-33]:Root fs not mounted
VFS:Cannot open root device 21:05
Kernel panic:VFS:unable to mount root fs on 21:05

I assume fs is referring to file system. I don't know what the rest of
the message is talking about. I am new to linux and would LOVE to get it
running as soon as possible. Any help would be appriciated.

Thanks,
Bryce Thornton

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by **Leonard Even** » Mon, 01 Nov 1999 03:00:00

> I have been trying to install Red Hat Linux 6.0 for a long time now. I
> have an Ultra ATA 66 Hard Drive that caused a lot of problems. Well, I
> finally figured out how to make linux recognize my hard drive and got it
> to install the files. Now, when I go to boot up Linux it gives me the
> following error.

> request-module[block-major-33]:Root fs not mounted
> VFS:Cannot open root device 21:05
> Kernel panic:VFS:unable to mount root fs on 21:05

> I assume fs is referring to file system. I don't know what the rest of
> the message is talking about. I am new to linux and would LOVE to get it
> running as soon as possible. Any help would be appriciated.

> Thanks,
> Bryce Thornton

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I think something is still wrong because it is looking for
the root file system on /dev/sgf, whatever that is.

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