Re: new hard drive install

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

Hello again

On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, David Wright wrote:

> Quoting charles kaufman (chuck@grinder.acc.uri.edu): 
> >  "kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 03:03"
> 
>
> > Is there somewhere in the kernel that remembers it used to boot from
> > /dev/hda3?> 


>  Yes. When you copy a kernel (e.g. I copy /boot/vmlinuz to
> c:\loadlin\zimage for loadlin to boot from dos) you need to rdev it.
> Type    rdev kernel-image    to see what it's set to and
> rdev kernel-image /dev/hda2    to set it. This saves having to tell it
> where root is every time you boot it.

Thanks.

But the lilo manpage says rdev is no longer needed since the parameters 
can be set from the lilo prompt.

I tried it anyway. With the new drive at /mnt, I did 
rdev /mnt/vmlinuz /dev/hda2, and
rdev -s /mnt/vmlinuz /dev/hda3.

I then then reattached the new drive onto the first ide connector and
rebooted. It failed in exactly the same way as before.

In case they contains any hints, here are the messages which immediately
precede the panic:

partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
[MS-DOS FS Rel.12, FAT 12, check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022]
[me=oxff,cs=32385,#f=255,fs=65409,fl=65409,ds=33024,de=65535,data=37215,
se=65635,ts=-1,ls=65535,rc=0,fc=4294967295]
Transaction block size=512
UMSDOS Beta 0.6 (compatability level 0.4 fast msdos)

the lines from [MSDOS..   to Transaction..  are then repeated,
and then it says 
Kernel panic : VFS Unable to mount root fs on 03:03.

Thanks again
Chuck Kaufman