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  From: David Lloyd <lloy0076@rebel.net.au>
  To  : Troy <troya@iweb.net.au>
  Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 10:51:17 +0930

Re:

Troy!

> hi when i start up linux red hat 7.1 i get a kernel message that says
> 
> kernel panic:vfs:unable to mount root fs on 3:07
> 
> can anyone help? thanx troy 8)

Oh, so it is you.

I was the person who installed it onto your machine. Last night, there
was nothing wrong except that I had to set lilo to lba32; the behaviour
you see is certainly not expected.

Here's one course of action:

1) insert the 1st Redhat disk and boot off of it
2) type "linux rescue"
3) answer the various questions
4) type "fdisk /dev/hda"
5) type "p"

You'll see something like:

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1        32    257008+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2            33        45    104422+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hda3            46       143    787185   83  Linux
/dev/hda4           144      2096  15687472+   5  Extended
/dev/hda5           144       535   3148708+  83  Linux
/dev/hda6           536      1058   4200966   83  Linux

This is, of course, if the system behaves itself but it should.

6) quit out of that (q)
7) type mount

You'll see something like:

/dev/hda1 on / type ext2 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw

8) Any device (/dev/hda1 for example) that appears in the fdisk:

[root@localhost]# umount /dev/hda1

That is to say, unmount it

9) Now, fsck /dev/hda[xyz] but NOT the Windows ME partition

That is to say run fsck on all of your devices.

My suspicion is that there's a hardware fault somewhere and fsck might
pick it up. I also suspect that Windows ME may have done something but
it shouldn't have.

DSL
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