| Stephen Gran on 7 Dec 2003 11:55:04 -0500 |
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On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 11:44:35AM -0500, Bob Schwier said: > The hard drive comes on on a Gateway and winds through its tests > which it calls raids and then it crashes right after autorun > saying: > "Kernal panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:01" > I don't even know what flavor of Linux or Unix this drive has. > As it claims to see the CD-ROM, something that the install disks > for SUSE and Redhat don't, I would like to get it to work. > I've been through three separate CD drives, two of which I know > were good. > Worse than the install disks not seeing the CD-ROM is that I can't > get the bios to see and react to it even as it is supposedly bootable. > bs It looks like your lilo.conf is using 'root=/dev/hda1' when it should be pointed to the raid partition that it actually wants to use. Try to figure out which raid partition is your root partition - you can boot with a rescue cd or something, and run fdisk -l /dev/rd/c0d0 or so. That's one of the standard raid device names, there are probably others. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | Much of the excitement we get out of | | steve@lobefin.net | our work is that we don't really know | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | what we are doing. -- E. Dijkstra | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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