Re: [slightly OT] 486 50mhz 16ram 258mb HD - Kernel Panic
On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Brendon wrote:
> after inserting the rootdisk i receive the following error message:
>
> [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12, FAT 16,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap]
> [me=0xa6,sc=340,#f=194,fs=44860,fl=101811,ds=19927266,de=61894,data=19931136,se=
> 52701,ts=-1458993024,ls=2013,rc=0,fc=4294967295]
> Transaction block size = 512
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 02:00
>
> can't say i've ever seen the first part, the second i've always blamed on the
> presence of FAT32 partitions (that is, when i removed them i didnt get a
> kernel panic).. but this is on a HD without partitions.
>
> a problem with a BIOS setting perhaps? has anyone seen this before?
>
Strange. The kernel boots up ok, right? Perhaps you should try to write
the image on a different floppy.
Greetz,
Sebastiaan
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