by -=> Quoting Ronald Pacheco to All <=-
RP> What does this message mean ? I have a Pentium 90 and an Intel
RP> motherboard with an Adaptec 2940 SCSI host adapter with a SCSI drive,
RP> that installed the Slackware 2.3 fine. But upon rebooting the system,
RP> I get the above error message, ? What does this mean ?
RP> Error was as follows:
RP> kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount foot fs on 08:01.
RP> And right from there, it hangs.
RP> Any help ASAP would be appreciated.
RP> Thanks a lot.
The mezz means that that the kernel is unable to mount any root filesystem.
Therefor, the thing you should do is to run liloconfig, or edit /etc/lilo.conf
manually, then just run "lilo". It should work, and then you can use your
linux just like anyone else.
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