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.
Can you boot to the installer? Get both rescue.bin and root.bin or a cd. When the installer's welcome screen appears switch to vt 2 and you'll have a root console. From there you can run e2fsck (I hope, you can certainly run 'fdisk' and 'mount'). HTH, -D -- Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. James 1:27