I had assembled my Frankensteined system unit, installed Mandrake, and had my new Linux box working successfully. BUT ... I didn't have IDE cables long enough to connect to the drive drawer. So I got and installed new cables, booted up the machine, and got an error message. The system starts lilo, chugs along until it gets to mounting root, fails, flails around a bit, and then gives me a kernel panic message.
It can't be the hard drive isn't working, or it wouldn't get as far as it does. I'm sure that this is something simple and obvious, but flipping through my Linux books doesn't help. Any advice for a confused Linux newbie? -- Karen Lofstrom yes, newbie, because this is the first time I've built a Linux system from scratch
