Hi Thanks again. On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, David Wright wrote:
> Quoting charles kaufman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): "kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 03:03" > I think that may change everything. Allowing for typos, because you > copied that off the screen, did it really say FAT 12? It looks as > though it's either misread the partition table (perhaps it got the > geometry wrong or something) or the kernel lacks some necessary > functionality to handle the new disk. What does lsmod show when you > have the disk on /mnt. Is it using a module to get at that disk? > Could your partitions be misnumbered in some way? > > Either way, I think you may need more expert help than I can provide. Yes it really says FAT 12 (twice). That has seemed strange to me too. The root device had been set as /dev/hda3; the lilo option should have changed that on the fly, as you say, but not the swap device. rdev changed them both, and they are now set to /hda2 and /hda3 in the kernel. But as I said in my last note it still fails with the same message. insmod reports nothing. There are no modules loaded. IDE support is compiled in, I believe, since it has never needed any insmod 's. (by the way it was man rdev not man lilo that said rdev isn't needed- my mistake) Chuck Kaufman
