gee I saw that message a lot, when looking at Red Hat 7.2 got no mountable root partition message, went and bought Mandrake 8.1 from local store because of it. ( currently running 8.2 power pack )
Hal Black wrote: > My 8.2 machine ended up having dirty filesystems after rebooting becayse > of bug in the network drive shutdown code in 8.2. When I tried to > upgrade this system, 9.0RC2's installer couldnt' find the / filesystem > to upgrade. I assume this is because it was dirty. The problem went > away and I was able to upgrade on these filesystems after hacking out > parts of the shutdown script. > > The message given wasn't very informative. It was something like > "unable to find / filesystem" or "unable to find mandrake linux > installation" It would have been better to say - "all filesystems need > repair before installation" (or better yet ask, fsck & repair them, but > problably not time for that for 9.0). > > >
