Hi,
On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Clifford Okoro wrote:
> During the bootup of linux i get the ff nessage and the system hangs
> after that
>
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly
> Unable to open initial console
>
> Note that the first line is just to show the point the error occurs.
> I'm running a Cyrix 233 Media GX machine. I do have an ethernet card
> on the machine but i've not configured Linux for it in any way - I'm
> using LoopBack for now and my graphics card is not supported by
> XFree86 but noe of these 'future problem sources' can be the culprit
> of this problem.
Hmm, are you using the correct root partion? If you use LILO, try to boot
your system by passing "root=<Your root partition>" to the kernel. Note:
do not use the partition for "/boot" as your root partition! This is a
very common pothole.
Bye,
LenZ
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