Re: rescue

[Alexander Wallace <awallace@rwsoft-online.com>]

This is exactly my situation, so I join the question... What do I do???

On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Tom Allison wrote:

> I have a kernel panic:
> VFS: Cannot open root device "hda6" or 03:06
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:06.
>
> Now I've tried different root options to cover all of them including what was
> once /.
>
> Nothing works.
>
> I was building a custom kernel and ran dpkg -i ../kernel-image... just like I
> have so many times before.  But something didn't go very well.
>
> For now, what exactly do I do to recover from this and have a working kernel
> on my hard drive?
> I have a debian 2.2.r3 and 2.2.r2 CD-ROMS and another computer (obviously) to
> work from.  But no 'rescue' disks for the defunct PC (different CPU than the
> rest).
>
> I was running 2.4.9.
>
>
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