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Re: Getting Debian 2.0 to boot on ThinkPad 600



On Tue, Sep 01, 1998 at 11:35:21AM -0400, James G. MacKinnon wrote:
> Steve Hsieh kindly pointed out that we should have read readme.txt on the
> rescue disk and run rdev.sh after transferring the kernel to it. We have
> now done this, using both a bzImage (as recommended in the readme file)
> and a zImage (as recommended by Steve). In both cases, we get a kernel
> panic at the same place:
> 
>   Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:06.
> 
> This is right after a very verbose message about a FAT filesystem.
It tries to mount /dev/hda6 as root filesystem (03 06 are major and minor
numbers of the device) and fails.

Appears it does not try to mount /dev/ram0 as root device as it should.

Did you really run rdev.sh right? 
(Make sure the floppy is writeable)

  mount /dev/fd0 /mnt
  sh /mnt/rdev.sh
  umount /mnt

Nils

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