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I installed Linux on my dos 6.x win 3.1 system without a hitch...lilo was working and everything.  I put Win95 (not by choice) on, and reinstalled linux becuase of some minor goofups.  Now, I can't re-compile the kernal..when I do, I get a VFS: Can't mount root on #:#.  Lilo won't install correctly, even on a disk...all I get is "LI" and the computer freezes.  I try to compile kernal version 1.3.20 (I have 1.2.13), and all my computer displays upon booting is a bunch of numbers (memory address I think).  T

I had no problems with my system...

All I did was the following:

1) I had linux already installed
2) I reformated my dos partition as a win95 partition (using
the win95 format command).
3) I installed Win95
4) Machine would only boot win95 so I booted off of my 911
linux disk and reinstalled lilo.

Everyting works fine.. Just compiled the 2.01 kernel the
other day...

I guess your problem is that Win95 doesn't have a good entry in MBR.
I suggest you do the following:
Boot with a Windows95-disk and run FDISK /MBR.
Boot with a LILO-bootdisk and reinstall LILO.

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I installed Linux on a win95 machine and it all went with out a hitch.
But I didn't use Lilo or the MBR instead use loadlin by doing the
following:

first make win95 use a start-up menu:

copy msdos.sys to some file for safe keeping
attrib msdos.sys -s -h -r
edit msdos,sys
change bootgui=1 to bootgui=0
then save it
attrib msdos.sys +s +h +r

now edit config.sys and autoexec.bat to add a menu (same sort of thing
as Lilo)...

My config looks somthing like this:
        [MENU]
        menuitem=Win95, Windows 95
        menuitem=Dos, DOS
        menuitem=Linux, Linux
        me*fault=Linux, 5

        [Linux]

        [Win95]
        BUFFERS=23,0
        ...

        [Dos]
        DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
        ...

and autoexec.bat:

        goto %config%

        :Linux
        call c:\linux\loadlin\linux.bat (or where ever  loadlin is)
        goto end
        :end

        :Dos
        PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;C:\ULTRASND;C:\DOS;c:\menu
        ...
        goto end

        :Win95

PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;C:\ULTRASND;C:\DOS;c:\menu;c:\winsock
        win
        goto end

        :end
linux.bat is one line:
c:\linux\loadlin\loadlin  c:\vmlinuz  root=/dev/hdb1  ro
where c:\linux\loadlin\ is what ever dir you installed loadlin to...
vmlinux is just a copy or the image from your root linux partition and
root=/dev/hdb1 should be changed to your root linux partition.

Now you must install loadlin. Just follow all the directions that you
get with it and you should be able to install it with out any
problems.

Well that should take care of booting linux. (doing it this way also
means you can also jump to linux from Win95 just by running the
loadlin.exe without rebooting - just make sure you close all open
files and programs!)

- Chris Gravis