On Tue, Sep 01, 1998 at 11:35:21AM -0400, James G. MacKinnon wrote: > Steve Hsieh kindly pointed out that we should have read readme.txt on the > rescue disk and run rdev.sh after transferring the kernel to it. We have > now done this, using both a bzImage (as recommended in the readme file) > and a zImage (as recommended by Steve). In both cases, we get a kernel > panic at the same place: > > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:06. > > This is right after a very verbose message about a FAT filesystem. It tries to mount /dev/hda6 as root filesystem (03 06 are major and minor numbers of the device) and fails.
Appears it does not try to mount /dev/ram0 as root device as it should. Did you really run rdev.sh right? (Make sure the floppy is writeable) mount /dev/fd0 /mnt sh /mnt/rdev.sh umount /mnt Nils -- *-----------------------------------------------------------------------------* | Quotes from the net: L> Linus Torvalds, W> Winfried Truemper | | L>this is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | W>Umh, oh. What do you mean by "special easter release"?. Will it quit | * W>working today and rise on easter? *
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