Are you sure you have a good root file system?
Did you try making a boot disk when installing this time?
Fin wrote:
>
> I previously ran mandrake 7 on my old PII setup with no problems.
> However, now that I've upgraded to an Athlon setup I get the following
> message when I try to install from dos:
>
> kernel panic:VFS:unable to mount root fs on 08:01
>
> It won't boot from the cd and if I try to use my old boot floppy I get
> another kernel panic message.
>
m> I also noticed that there is a message about a possible problem with
RAM
> although Mandrake doesn't crash at that point.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Fin
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