Re: Can't boot from floppies - HELP!
Jake Griesbach <griesbac@gamera.colorado.edu> writes:
> I'm trying to boot from the Debian rescue disk to install linux for the
> first time. I have an adaptec AIC-7890 scsi card, so I was typing
>
> linux aix7xxx
>
> to boot.
> After the kernel loads, I get the following after the scsi driver loads:
>
> sda: sda1, sda2
> sdb: sdb1
> [MS-DOS FS Rel. ...
> [me=0x0, ...
> Transactions block size = 512
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00
>
>
> Any ideas? I tried using three different floppies now, and each give the
> same result.
Your kernel doesn´t have ramdisk support or initial ramdisk support.
Or you don´t have the filesystem support for the ramdisk, i.e. ext2 or
minix.
May the Source be with you.
Goswin
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