On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> I have a new Athlon pro 800mhz 128m ram 30gig hda 2.5gig hdb. When I try to
> load RH6.2 it starts going through the boot process. Then it aborts with a
> kernel panic. My hdb already has RH6.2 on it from another computer. I was
> trying to keep all that info and just change some settings to run on this
> computer
>
>
> Here is the message I get. It starts the boot up and recongnizes the hard
> drives and partitions. then this appears
> VFS: cannot open root device 08:34
> Kernel Panic: FFS: unable to mount fs on 08:34
>
Hmm... do you have a small /boot partition at the head of the drive
to ensure that the kernel is within the first 1024 cylinders? RedHat
6.2 still ships with the "old" LILO which can't handle a kernel
outside of the 1024 cylinder limit.
John
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