Re: Help needed : kernel panic unable to mount root fs

2002-05-30 Thread Goswin Brederlow
"Shree Raman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi all!! > > I am experiencing a tough time as my system had a kernel panic. it > happened while I was installing openoffice. The system hunged and > there was no way left other than rebooting & then a kernel panic > prompt. > > > I had installed deb

Re: Help needed : kernel panic unable to mount root fs

2002-05-30 Thread David Kimdon
Wed, May 29, 2002 at 10:19:37AM - wrote: > hi all!! > > I am experiencing a tough time as my system had a kernel panic. it > happened while I was installing openoffice. The system hunged and > there was no way left other than rebooting & then a kernel panic > prompt. > > I had installed de

Re: Help needed : kernel panic unable to mount root fs

2002-05-29 Thread Seneca
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 10:19:37AM -, Shree Raman wrote: > I am experiencing a tough time as my system had a kernel panic. it > happened while I was installing openoffice. The system hunged and > there was no way left other than rebooting & then a kernel panic > prompt. > > I had installed

Help needed : kernel panic unable to mount root fs

2002-05-29 Thread Shree Raman
hi all!! I am experiencing a tough time as my system had a kernel panic. it happened while I was installing openoffice. The system hunged and there was no way left other than rebooting & then a kernel panic prompt. I had installed debian testing from floppies & i am not having a boot disk.

Re: kernel panic: unable to mount root fs...

2000-04-11 Thread John Kiff
ardrive unless you specifically mount a partition. > > - Bruce > > -- > On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, John Kiff wrote: > > > Help!!! > > > > I got the following messages when I was booting up: > > > > "EXT2-fs: group descriptors corrupted:" > > >

Re: kernel panic: unable to mount root fs...

2000-04-10 Thread Ron Rademaker
pted:" > > followed a few lines later by: > > "kernel panic: unable to mount root fs on 03:02" > > after which everything stops. The same thing happened when I tried using my > boot floppy. > > What should I do? My first reaction is to go back to

kernel panic: unable to mount root fs...

2000-04-10 Thread John Kiff
Help!!! I got the following messages when I was booting up: "EXT2-fs: group descriptors corrupted:" followed a few lines later by: "kernel panic: unable to mount root fs on 03:02" after which everything stops. The same thing happened when I tried using my boot floppy.

RE: Kernel panic: unable to mount root

2000-04-04 Thread Kevin
That's what the problem was. Thanks for the help. Kevin -Original Message- From: George Bonser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 11:50 PM To: Kevin Cc: Debian-User Subject: Re: Kernel panic: unable to mount root On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Kevin wrote: > I de

Re: Kernel panic: unable to mount root

2000-04-04 Thread aphro
make sure you compiled the kernel with the driver(s) needed to access your hdd, did you see an IDE scan go on during boot? sample output from a VIA MVP3 based Super Socket 7 board would be: VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: B

Kernel panic: unable to mount root

2000-04-04 Thread Kevin
I decided to compile a new kernel (2.2.1) to upgrade from 2.0.38 for my 486 (slink) and I followed the instructions in the kernel howto. I compiled and installed the kernel, ran lilo, and rebooted. I receive the following error: Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:01 my lilo.conf: