Re: kernel panic: unable to mount root fs...
Where is your root partition, try booting with the boot option
root=/dev/<whatever drive your root partition is> (possible
/dev/hda1). And see what happens.
Ron Rademaker
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, John Kiff wrote:
> Help!!!
>
> I got the following messages when I was booting up:
>
> "EXT2-fs: group descriptors corrupted:"
>
> followed a few lines later by:
>
> "kernel panic: unable to mount root fs on 03:02"
>
> after which everything stops. The same thing happened when I tried using my boot floppy.
>
> What should I do? My first reaction is to go back to square one and reinstall Debian (I'm
> currently using 2.2). However, before I take such drastic measures, is there a quicker and simpler
> way of getting everything back up and running?
>
> John Kiff
>
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