Re: partition dumbness causing kernel panic

1998-05-05 Thread David Wright
On Sun, 3 May 1998, aaron chizor brick wrote: > so now it isn't booting still off the HD, but if i use the use the rescue > disk and do "rescue root=/dev/hda6" it will boot ok. > > the only clue i have as to what's up is if i run lilo with the settings > all the same as they were before this wen

Re: partition dumbness causing kernel panic

1998-05-04 Thread chizor
so now it isn't booting still off the HD, but if i use the use the rescue disk and do "rescue root=/dev/hda6" it will boot ok. the only clue i have as to what's up is if i run lilo with the settings all the same as they were before this went down (ie, legitimate lilo.conf) it tells me: > Device

Re: partition dumbness causing kernel panic

1998-05-04 Thread chizor
> select "mount previously initialized swap > partition" (forgot to mention that previously). > After doing that, select "mount previously initialized Linux partition" > or something of the like, which should allow you to choose which ext2 > partition you want (this should mount the partition und

partition dumbness causing kernel panic

1998-05-03 Thread chizor
i was trying to mount a partition on my debian box but apparently i screwed things up. now when i try to boot from the HD it stops after telling me the cache size and clock speed. if i try to do it with my boot disk, it works for a while, then alerts me to a kernel panic ("unable to mount root fs