cramfs: wrong magic, kernel panic
I was experimenting with different video modes and I can no longer boot my
system. I was passing different modes at the prompt, and used 'scan' from
the video mode menu. I chose a mode and couldn't see anything so I gave the
machine a clt-alt-del. Now I can't boot either of my two kernels (2.2.20 &
2.4.18) from lilo, I get the following messages:
(2.4.18)
Partition check:
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: [PTBL] [4866/255/63] p1 p3 < p5 p6 p7 >
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: [PTBL] [1046/255/63] p1 p2 p3 p4 < p5 p6
p7 >
cramfs: wrong magic
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 3:46
(2.2.20)
[MS-DOS FS Rel. 12, FAT 12, Check=n, conv=b, uid=0, gid=0, umask=022, bmap]
[me=0x0, cs=0, #f=0, fs=0, f1=0, ds=0, de=0, data =0, se=0, ts=0, ls=0,
rc=0, fc=42949672
Transaction block size = 512
Invalid session number or type of track
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 3:46
If I use the debian boot disk I get this messsge:
request_module[nls_cp437]: Root fd not mounted
Unable to load NLS charset cp437
VFS: Mounted root (msdos filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 72k freed
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.
I'm not sure why there's mention of 'MS-DOS FS' since all of my dos
partitions are on /dev/hda and linux boots from /dev/hdb. Could I have reset
the computer while lilo was writing to the bootsector?
Neal
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