No small partition at head of the drive. I am trying to do a fresh install.
It can't get past the initial bootup from the floppy.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Aldrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 8:55 AM
Subject: re:Kernel panic
> On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> > I have a new Athlon pro 800mhz 128m ram 30gig hda 2.5gig hdb. When I try
to
> > load RH6.2 it starts going through the boot process. Then it aborts with
a
> > kernel panic. My hdb already has RH6.2 on it from another computer. I
was
> > trying to keep all that info and just change some settings to run on
this
> > computer
> >
> >
> > Here is the message I get. It starts the boot up and recongnizes the
hard
> > drives and partitions. then this appears
> > VFS: cannot open root device 08:34
> > Kernel Panic: FFS: unable to mount fs on 08:34
> >
> Hmm... do you have a small /boot partition at the head of the drive
> to ensure that the kernel is within the first 1024 cylinders? RedHat
> 6.2 still ships with the "old" LILO which can't handle a kernel
> outside of the 1024 cylinder limit.
> John
>
>
>
>
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