Is the boot disk a LILO disk or a raw kernel disk. If it is a LILO disk
you need to append root=/dev/hdXX. (where X = a1 , a2 etc.. or b1 b2 etc.)
If the kernel is just a raw boot disk, then you need to do a rdev on your
kernel.
eg:
rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hdXX
(You need to boot linux first to do this)
On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, Jerome Gasperi wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I cannot boot on Linux even with a boot disk!!!
> I've the following message when i boot on Linux:
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> kernel panic unable to mount f2s root partition
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> What can i do??? Do you think that my hard drive died????
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> Thanks
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> Jerome Gasperi
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> PS: I've a Linux RedHat 5.1 (kernel 2.0.35)
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