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Urgent: Installation Problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Bibbings)
Thu Oct 2 22:25:09 1997
From: bibbings@ns.drumsisdn.net (Bob Bibbings)
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu, ncr53c810@Colorado.EDU,
bibbings@ns.drumsisdn.net
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 1997 02:21:02 GMT
Reply-To: bibbings@ns.drumsisdn.net
My old 486dx4-120 system failed and I had to replace most of the
system. The old system ran with an Adaptec 2842 VLB controller with 2
Quantum SCSI drives, a SCSI Sony CDROM (CDU76s) and an internal SCSI
Zip drive. My first partition was a PC-DOS v7 33Mb partition with the
rest of the system devoted to Linux. This system had been up and
running for 18 months. The only reboots were when I moved, and then
moved the system to another room after we moved.
I was running 1.2.13 Slackware w/o any problems (until the system
failed - not Linux's fault). I decided rather than try to replace old
hardware to go ahead and upgrade to a K5-133 on a generic board with
an Intel VX chipset. Got a Symbios(NCR 53c810 chip) PCI SCSI
controller and a generic S3 Virge PCI card with 4Mb ram. I added ram
to the system's mainboard to bring it to 64 Mb. Same hard drives,
cdrom and Zip drives. The system comes up with LILO and I can select
the DOS partition and boot DOS w/o any problem.
Upon Linux install, the boot disk boots fine - detects all hardware
and then prompts for the root disk. I insert the root disk and after
a moment get the following:
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
crc error<6>JAVA Binary support v1.01 for Linux 1.3.98 (C)1996 Brian
A. Lantz
VFS: Insert root floppy and press enter
This time when you press enter a whole bunch of garbage comes up that
discusses the following:
[MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 12,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap]
[me=0xab,cs=7200,#f=218,fs=12464,fl=15928,ds=11360,de=61440,data=15200,se=43703,ts=604359905,ls=31196]
Transaction block size = 512
this message is repeated three times and then I get the following:
Kernel panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 02:1c
Anybody know what all this means? Please advise as this is my web
server that is currently down.
Thanks,
Bob
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Kingston, Georgia, USA
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