On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 06:50:46PM -0700, Adam Shand wrote: > i eventually figured out that if you boot off the second cd you get the > compact kernel (doh ... been usign debian 5 years and never needed this > before). so it now recognises the controller, but if still fails with a > kernel panic after it recognises ida/c0d0 and finds two eepro100's (i have > to type it in but it looks like this unless i made a typo): > > Partition check: > ida/c0d0: ida/c0d0o3 > [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 0,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap] > [me=0x0,cs=0,#f=0,fs=0.fl=0,ds ... blah blah > Transaction block size = 512 > [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 0,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap] > [me=0x0,cs=0,#f=0,fs=0.fl=0,ds ... blah blah > Transaction block size = 512 > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00 > > any ideas? right now my guess is that it's the compaq smart start > partition that's screwing it up so i'm gonna try and delete that, > re-configure it via the bios interface and see what happens. I toasted the DOS partition, but every time I've seen transaction block size errors, I had a bad root disk (floppy or image). Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <stephen@marenka.net>
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