If I just type 'rescue' at the boot prompt I get the slightly different error message 'Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00', so this doesn't provide me with the chance to run fdisk, or anything else. But, I know that I've only got hda1 thru' 4 and I've tried all of them - thou' I know hda3 is Windows and hda4 is /home
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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 > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
