>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Mark> Partition check: hda: hda1 hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 VFS: Cannot Mark> open root device 08:01 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount Mark> root fs on 08:01 Your floppy is trying to boot from the device with major number 8, minor number 1. This is sda1, the first SCSI disk, first partition. Try telling your floppy to boot linux from hda1: LILO Boot: linux root=/dev/hda1 That should do the trick. If your floppy isn't using LILO you should be able to use the debian boot disk instead. More long term, there must be a problem with LILO on your system. Once you get it up from a floppy have a look at /etc/lilo.conf. You should have something along the lines of... boot=/dev/hda1 root=/dev/hda1 compact install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only However, the problem you described (`LI' and nothing else) I have seen when the master boot record doesn't seem to hand off properly to lilo on /dev/hda1. My fix was to use `boot=/dev/hda', and install lilo on the MBR, instead of the first sector of the partition. Remember to run lilo after editing lilo.conf. Hope that helps, Graeme PS. You can find out the major and minor numbers of a device with `ls -l' in /dev, e.g. abulafia$ ls -l /dev/sda* brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 Dec 31 1969 sda brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 Dec 31 1969 sda1 ... you can find out the device associated with a major number by greping... abulafia$ ls -l /dev | grep "8," brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 Dec 31 1969 sda brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 Dec 31 1969 sda1 ... -- | Graeme A Stewart, pgp public key finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Key fingerprint = AF C7 BF A4 52 D5 3C 3B 17 A5 62 43 DA 15 E8 97 | | Please support free GNU: http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/ | | software. Debian/GNU Linux: http://www.debian.org/ | | "Keep a good head, and always carry a lightbulb." Dylan | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]