Hi Mr. Terpstra, I also had these problems however, you need to provide more info regarding your problem.
Things which should me installed kernel-package => this package contains a manual for installing 2.6 series kernel which is quite extensive and good to understand. so do something with: apt-get install kernel-package At first sight it looks that you can not mount your root filesystem. please check if your initrd is properly made. system.map, config file are pointed correctly don not forget to run: lilo -v -v -v (-v => for more debuggin info) Question: " (by the way, is there any way to get a log of all the messages from a failed boot?)" Answer: yes, please check: /var/log/syslog have fun, Marvilleke I'm getting an error on startup that causes the system to halt before fully booting, and would like some help figuring out what exactly is wrong and how to fix it :) Here are what seem to be the applicable lines: request_module[block-major-3]: Root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device "341" or 03:41 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:41 (by the way, is there any way to get a log of all the messages from a failed boot? I had to copy these out by hand) I'm using lilo as my boot manager for a multi-os system, with the operating systems occupying two separate physical drives. I would like to put lilo on the mbr of the first drive, and have it able to boot windows from hda2(vfat) --which it currently does without a problem-- and my Debian installation from hdb1(ext2). hda1 etc are currently being used by another installation of Debian which I'm going to remove once this one's working. The error seems to occur AFTER lilo has passed control to the kernel, but the part about appending a "root=" option sounds like a lilo issue to me, so here's my lilo.conf (minus the comment lines): lba32 boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hdb1 install=/boot/boot-menu.b map=/boot/map delay=20 menu-title=" Booting FriedFish on... " vga=normal default=Linux image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only image=/vmlinuz.old label=LinuxOLD read-only optional other=/dev/hda2 label=Windows I can't see anything wrong here. Is it possible that the other Debian installation's copy of lilo is messing something up? I should probably also mention that hdb is a new drive I just purchased. Is it possible there is something wrong with the drive itself? (a quick google search for "kernel panic VFS" seemed to bring up a fair number of dead harddrive scenarios..) The system was booting properly when I first installed Debian on the new drive and hadn't yet tweaked lilo. I'm not sure if this problem started immediately after this or not though, as I was doing a lot of switching around with boot disks for a while there. Besides changing around lilo's configuration, I've also just recently removed kde and installed Gnome1.4, complimented by a few gnome2 libraries that dselect thought were a good idea. My boot disks still work fine (although they are incredibly slow) Is there any other information about my system/history/etc that would be helpful? Sincerely, --Maxwell Terpstra PS> please CC a copy of your replies straight to me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]