RE: Hamm installation problems

[Francois Gouget <gouget@metaintegration.net>]

	Hi,
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	To follow up on my previous message I have found the solution to 
the first problem. The message "Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount 
root fs on 01:00" was in fact caused by a memory detection problem. I 
have 128M of RAM and unless I say so with a "mem=128M" the kernel gets 
confused at some point. I should have specified the amount of memory I 
have but since it seemed more related to the disk...

	For the partitionning now. I still only see two partitions. So, 
to tell you more about my disk, it' a Quantum SCSI VIKING II 9.1WLS. 
According to Linux fdisk the geometry is C=1110 H=255 S=63 so I get a 
warning that it has more than 1024 cylinders. But I don't see why it 
would prevent me from seing the logical partitions. Here is what fdisk 
tells me about the partitions:

Device    Boot Begin Start   End   Blocks  Id System
/dev/sda1  *      1     1     65   522081   6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/sda2        66    66   1110  8393962+  f Unknown

And cfdisk tells me:
Name       Flags Part Type  FS Type              Label    Size
/dev/sda1  Boot  Primary    DOS FAT16 (big)      [   ]   509.88
/dev/sda2        Primary    Win95 Extended (LBA)        8197.23

The problem is /dev/sda2. It is an extended partition not a primay 
partition. But fdisk will not let me change it's type to 05 which is 
for Extended partition. If I go to the extended functionality and ask 
for the list of extended partitions I get an empty list.

So maybe the solution is to change its type to 05 but how do I do 
that ?

Now here is what Win95 fdisk tells me:
Partition Status Type     Volume Label Mbytes System Usage
C: 1        A    PRI DOS  WIN95          510  FAT16     6%
   2             EXT DOS                8197           94%

Thanks to Harter for telling me about /proc/kmsg. The only problem is, 
when I type "cat /proc/kmsg" cat does not show anything and blocks 
until I "kill -9" it. But I've found that now that I can boot ok 
Alt+F4 will show me the last 25 lines of the boot messages.

Francois


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