Dear Dr Debian, I woke up this morning to discover that there had been a blackout. My computer had tried to reboot but couldn't even get a LILO prompt. Actually, that's not completely true, it did manage to get half a LILO prompt (it printed "LI") and then hung. I tried rebooting again a couple of times and the same thing happened.
My next strategy was to use my floppy boot disk. It complained with: Partition check: hda: hda1 hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 VFS: Cannot open root device 08:01 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01 Then it hung. I would greatly appreciate suggestions on what I should do. Thanks in advance, Mark Phillips. P.S. I should explain that hda1 is an 850 M hard drive which contains my debian system. hdb1 is a dos partition. hdb2 is my swap partition. hdb3 is a spare ext2 partition I use for storing bits and pieces (ie not part of the main structure). -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]