Re: kernel panic while mounting root fs

[Aaron Solochek <leko@cmu.edu>]

Have you tried simply running lilo?  and/or rdeving the 2.2.10 kernel to whatever it
should point to?  Apologies if you've already done all this.

-Aaron Solochek
 leko@cmu.edu

Andrei Ivanov wrote:

> I just had to replace a motherboard in my Linux box (floppy controller
> went bad) and now, for some reason, when I'm trying to boot my 2.2.10
> kernel, I get kernel panic while mounting root fs.
> I can't reproduce the exact message right now, but it seems that while
> booting it's doing a normal partition check and fails then.
> However, I can boot my 2.0.36 kernel off the boot disk without a single
> problem (yet, I might get some headaches because I can not recompile the
> 2.0.36 kernel since I switched to 2.2.10)
> Any idea why 2.2.10 panics and 2.0.36 boots?
>
> TIA,
>  Andrew
>
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