Even though you specified what drive to boot off of in lilo.conf, did you run lilo
before you re-booted your computer. If not, you will have to use a rescue disk to
boot from floppy and then run lilo on the hard disk.
I don't know if this is the source of your problem but it catches many people.
Rich
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> From: Dingrong Yi[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 4:00 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [rtl] please help with "kernel panic: unable to mount fs"
>
> Hi
>
> I am trying to install rtLinux with rtlinux-2.0-prepatched.tgz.
> However, I tried many times during the last month but still could not
> boot the kernel. In my computer I have NT98, linux, now adding rtLinux.
> I have adaptec aha 2900 SCSI card and works well with linux.
>
> The problem like this:
>
> partion check:
> NTFS version 990411
> request_module (block-major-8]: Root fs not mounted.
> VFS: can not open root device 08:03
> kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:03.
>
> and stop there forever. Even though in my lilo.conf, it is told to boot
> from /dev/sda3, but it seems to me it still goes to the NT. I guess
> this problem might relate to my SCSI card that not supported by rtLinux.
>
>
> Any suggestions or experiences are appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Dingrong
>
>
>
>
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