[2585] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Urgent: Installation Problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tin V Le)
Fri Oct 3 13:07:44 1997
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 10:03:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tin V Le <tin@Saigon.COM>
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>
Bob,
I think I know what your problem is.
On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Bob Bibbings wrote:
> 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
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Your problem is here, first partition is DOS.
> 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.
Lilo is looking for Linux root on the first partition. During the boot
stage, when it give you the prompt, you can try the following:
mount root=/dev/sda2
or wherever your Linux partition is located. That should work. I've run
into this before when my Linux root is on the 3rd SCSI drive (ID 2, sdc1).
Tin Le
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