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  From: Evan Bourlotos <evan@cs.adelaide.edu.au>
  To  : David Lloyd <lloy0076@rebel.net.au>
        Troy <troya@iweb.net.au>
  Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 12:57:53 +0900

Re:

DSL <--- love that tag 

I had some problems with rh7.1 which required me to change the 2nd disk to
large then it would boot happily anything else the boot process would hang.

evan

>
>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
>-- 
>"And the winner is
>   InUnifiedCanadianAboriginalSyllabics"
>- Larry Wall et al in Programming Perl
>
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