Re: Installation help
On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 21:52, Richard Frovarp wrote:
> I'm looking for some help in installing the stable version of Debian. I
> am having a problem with it reading the root disk. After loading the
> rescue disk it prompts for the root disk, but does not read the drive.
> After hitting enter I get this error:
>
> request_module [block-major-2]: Root fs not mounted.
Probably : your root disk is corrupted, just create another one and try
again. This of course if you effectively switched from rescue to root
when prompted for.
Michel.
>
> Hitting enter again gives me a kernel panic error. I have tried the
> compact, base, unstable, idepci installs and they all fail to even try
> to read the fd0 drive when asking for the root.bin disk. Doesn't matter
> which disk or even if I have no disk in there, it throws the same
> errors.
>
> I'm running an P4 with these components:
>
> Asus P4T-E (Socket 478)
> P4 1.7
> Leadtek Geforce 3 Ti 500
> Creative Live! 5.1
> 3COM 905c
> Belkin Firewire
>
> It had Windows 2K installed on it buy the builder to test it and works
> just fine.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Richard Frovarp
> http://atl.ndsu.edu
>
>
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