Re: new hard drive install

[charles kaufman <chuck@grinder.acc.uri.edu>]

Hi
Thanks Brad.
On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Brad wrote:

> > "kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 03:03"
> 
> It's still trying to mount root from hda3. i don't know why, since you say
> you've checked and rechecked to make sure /etc/lilo.conf is correct and
> you've run lilo with the correct settings...
> 
> Since i can't think of anything else, is the device correct?
>   $ ls -l /dev/hda2
>   brw-rw----   1 root     disk       3,   2 Jun 17 22:13 /dev/hda2
>                                      ^^^^^^
> 
ls -l /dev/hda2 gives 
brw-r--r-- 1 root root 3,2 Jul 28 1998 /dev/hda2

That's before it's mounted-I have been booting with tomsrtbt (thanks
to Tom!) so it might be different if it actually boots from that device.

Is there somewhere in the kernel that remembers it used to boot from
/dev/hda3?

chuck