RedHat 6.0's floppies had problems with their image. Can you boot the CD?
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Bill Lewis wrote:
> No small partition at head of the drive. I am trying to do a fresh install.
> It can't get past the initial bootup from the floppy.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Aldrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 8:55 AM
> Subject: re:Kernel panic
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> > 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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