Re: Root partition stuck in read-only mode.
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- Subject: Re: Root partition stuck in read-only mode.
- From: Carel Fellinger <carel.fellinger@chello.nl>
- Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 22:32:44 +0100
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On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:17:12PM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
> I have some more info about my problem that might be useful.
>
> I booted up off of disk 1 of my Woody installation CDROM set.
> My root partition is /dev/sda2, so I entered the following at
> the "boot:" prompt ...
>
> rescue root=/dev/sda2
hm, SCSI disks...
> However, this errored out quickly. I got a couple screens'
...
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:02
...
> Would this indicate a hardware problem? Or is there still hope that
> this can be fixed with software?
...more likely your kernel doesn't know about SCSI disks, so software.
--
groetjes, carel
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