Cannot mount root? What?

["Bill Layer" <b.layer@vikingelectronics.com>]

Hi,

Well, I gave up on the SE/30, and instead upgraded my LC475 to a full 68040, 
and decided to install onto that machine. Something very puzzling is 
happening.

I thought I'd test to see whether or not the kernel will boot before I get 
too excited, so I started Penguin18, and selected Install/Linux as my kernel 
and Install/root.bin as my root filesystem. When I try to boot, the kernel 
makes it all the way and then:

VFS: Mounted root filesystem
VFS: Cannot mount root filesystem
Kernel panic: cannot mount root

(These are not the messages verbatim, but you get the drift - the kernel is 
posting conflicting messages)

So did it, or did it not mount the root filesystem? Why is this happening? Am 
I selecting the wrong kernel / root.bin images?


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Bill Layer
Sales Technician
<b.layer@vikingelectronics.com>

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