Re: boot error

["Marcus O.C. Metzler" <mocm@example.com>]

roylo writes:
 > [1  <text/plain; iso-2022-jp (7bit)>]
 > errr..
 > I said boot disk not rescue disk.
 > also
 > >panic : VFS : Unable to mount root fs on 03:01
 > you usually got that error when your "/" partition location has changed
 > (location is different from lilo)
 > in lilo.conf there is a line which says "root=/dev/hda1" ( the "hd??" part
 > could be different in your case)
 > which tell the kernel where your "/" is.
 > 
 > so in your case I think 3 thing could have happened
 > 1.) Your rescue disk is incorrect
 > 2.) Your partition table has been changed
 > 3.) Your disk might be corrupted
 > 
 > It will really help us to help you if you can tell us exactly what happen
 > and what did you do
 > also what is your linux knowledge level
 > 
 > 

It could also be that he forgot to include the correct filesystem in
the kernel. This panic always happens to me when I forget to include
reiserfs in the kernel.

Marcus

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