What did you use to partition your drive? When you installed Mandrake did you
repartition from scratch or did you resize existing partitions? If the latter,
then I believe that the partitions were not resized correctly.
My guess would be that you can't fix this problem without repartitioning your
drive.
On Sun, 21 Oct 2001 18:38:31 -0700, "Randy Sweeten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I searched Google and other search sites as Sridhar suggested, and found
> little. Other folks have had this error, but none of the message threads
> included the solution.
>
> I did discover the actual error is best described by the line:
> request_module[block-major-7]: Root fs not mounted.
> The references to "7" and 07:07" are some kind of location descriptors, and
> the problem is most likely partition related.
>
> I booted from a install floppy and got into rescue mode. An "fdisk -l
> /dev/hda" gives the following:
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 2032 2048224+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
> Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
> phys=(1022, 15, 63) should be (1022, 31, 63)
> /dev/hda2 2033 14913 12984048 f Win95 ext'd (LBA)
> Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary:
> phys=(1022, 15, 63) should be (1022, 31, 63)
> /dev/hda5 2033 8128 6144232+ b Win95 FAT32
> /dev/hda6 8128 14913 6839752+ b Win95 FAT32
>
> Does anybody know what this means, and if it is related to my problem? And
> maybe some hints on fixing it?
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sridhar Dhanapalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Mandrake Newbie List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 8:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Unable to mount root FS on 07:07
>
>
> > On Sat, 20 Oct 2001 20:28:22 -0700, "" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Help!
> > >
> > > I'm running Mandrake's Linux for Windows, and all of a sudden I cannot
> boot up
> > > Linux. Boot screens show:
> > >
> > > request_module[block-major-7]: Root fs not mounted
> > > VFS: Cannot open root device 07:07
> > > Kernal Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root FS on 07:07
> > >
> > > I did nothing in Linux that I know of; it's possible my daughter booted
> into
> > > Linux by mistake and turned off the power to get out of it. (It's hard
> to get
> > > a confession out of a 9 year old!)
> > >
> > > I added memory since the last time I booted Linux, and I was
> experimenting
> > > with a USB tape drive in Windows, but did nothing about it in Linux.
> And I
> > > tried removing the USB tape drive and rebooting Linux, to no avail.
> > >
> > > I can boot up to an Linux install disk and get to the rescue mode. What
> do I
> > > do there?
> >
> > I don't know about this specific error, but I have found that Google and
> Google
> > Groups can be great for searching for this kind of thing. Go to them and
> try
> > entering something like "Unable to mount root FS on 07:07".
--
Sridhar Dhanapalan
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers"
-- Thomas J. Watson, Chaiman of IBM, 1943.
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