geekboy wrote:
Martin Dickopp wrote:freeing initrd memory: 3956k freed FAT: bogus logical sectro size 0 kernel panic: VFS : unable to mount root fs on 03:05 So the initrd.img is working. remembered to run lilo after upgrade. does the 03:05 mean the fat partition on hda3 is screwed?No, 03:05 refers to hda5. It means the kernel cannot mount hda5 as the root filesystem. Is it perhaps trying to mount it as fat32, while it is in fact ext2?Okay well I checked fstab, and it's listed as loading it as ext2.I removed the fat32 partition just in case (from fstab & with cfdisk remove)and it still panics.
I'm with Martin in that the problem is with hda5. Here's how to tell: kowari:~# ls /dev/hda5 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 5 Mar 15 2002 /dev/hda5 kowari:~# Presumably your kernel commandline iis something like this: root=/dev/hda5 roNow,it's likely that support for ext2 is in a module. If so, then your kernel can't read the filesystem until the module is loaded.
The module should be in your initial ram disk. I see you are using one, so you need to check on how it's created.
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