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Re: Urgent: Installation Problem

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Fri Oct 3 01:02:09 1997

Date: 	Fri, 3 Oct 1997 00:41:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
To: Bob Bibbings <bibbings@ns.drumsisdn.net>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu, ncr53c810@Colorado.EDU
In-Reply-To: <34344dde.6457948@207.126.101.82>

On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Bob Bibbings wrote:

> 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
> 
> [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

Make yourself another root floppy...looks like that first one is hosed.
I've seen this many times.


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