Bug#37212: kernel panic
On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 04:00:58PM -0400, henrymar@gpc.peachnet.edu wrote:
> Package: boot-floppies
> Version: 2.1
[...]
> I am installing slink to an IDE HDD: 872 cyl, 8 heads, 125.0 MB.
>
> I formatted the drive and began the bootstrap.
>
> After loadin Linux and decompressing it, the process began to identify my
> hardware.
>
> It stopped with the following message:
>
> Kernel Panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:02
03:02 is /dev/hda2 , and the kernel is trying to mount the root
filesystem from that partition, and failing to find a proper ext2 fs
there.
If this error happens while booting the first time, the kernel on your
bootable medium ("rescue" floppy disk, I guess) is not properly configured.
If you have another linux system, mount that "rescue" floppy on /mnt and
run /mnt/rdev.sh to configure the kernel.
If this error happens while rebooting after intalling the Base System it
probably means that lilo wasn't run, or wasn't properly configured. Boot
again using the "rescue" floppy, open a shell on VT2 (press Alt-F2, then
ENTER), mount your root filesystem on /target, edit /target/etc/lilo.conf ,
and run /sbin/lilo .
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Enrique Zanardi ezanardi@ull.es
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