Re: new hard drive install
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Charles Kaufman wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, David Wright wrote:
>
> > Quoting charles kaufman (chuck@uri.edu):
> "kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 03:03"
>
>
> > I think that may change everything. Allowing for typos, because you
> > copied that off the screen, did it really say FAT 12? It looks as
> > though it's either misread the partition table (perhaps it got the
> > geometry wrong or something) or the kernel lacks some necessary
> > functionality to handle the new disk. What does lsmod show when you
> > have the disk on /mnt. Is it using a module to get at that disk?
> > Could your partitions be misnumbered in some way?
> >
> > Either way, I think you may need more expert help than I can provide.
>
> Yes it really says FAT 12 (twice). That has seemed strange to me too.
What does Linux "fdisk -l" show?
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