On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 11:49:41AM +0000, Simon R Tod wrote: > If I just type 'rescue' at the boot prompt I get the slightly different > error message 'Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00', so > this doesn't provide me with the chance to run fdisk, or anything else. > But, I know that I've only got hda1 thru' 4 and I've tried all of them - > thou' I know hda3 is Windows and hda4 is /home
The rescue disk should mount a root filesystem in RAM and not on the hard drive as far as I know. You might want to get tom's linux on a floppy: http://www.toms.net/rb/ Anita
