In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > > Okay, so the potato rescue disk seems to kick in alright, at the boot > prompt I type 'rescue root=/dev/hda1'. > I get a whole string messages as it locates some things and fails to > find others - seems alright to me - but ends with the line 'Kernel > panic: VFS: Unable to mount root on fs 03:01' at which point nothing > more happens!
I assume that /dev/hda1 is really your root partition and that your kernel is there. If you aren't sure, try 'fdisk -l /dev/hda' after booting just into rescue mode from the disk without the 'root=/dev/hda1' appended. You can look it over to see that it is the correct partition. I would try booting just into rescue and running 'e2fsck /dev/hda1' You might have to use another superblock if that fails: 'e2fsck -b 8193' or for filesystems with 2k blocksizes, 16384; and for 4k blocksizes, 32768. I haven't been following this; so I apologize if I'm off base here. Anita
