Where is your root partition, try booting with the boot option root=/dev/<whatever drive your root partition is> (possible /dev/hda1). And see what happens.
Ron Rademaker On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, John Kiff wrote: > Help!!! > > I got the following messages when I was booting up: > > "EXT2-fs: group descriptors corrupted:" > > followed a few lines later by: > > "kernel panic: unable to mount root fs on 03:02" > > after which everything stops. The same thing happened when I tried using my > boot floppy. > > What should I do? My first reaction is to go back to square one and reinstall > Debian (I'm > currently using 2.2). However, before I take such drastic measures, is there > a quicker and simpler > way of getting everything back up and running? > > John Kiff > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. > http://im.yahoo.com > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >