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  From: Andrew Lord <apdl@bigpond.com>
  To  : <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 23:20:37 +0930

Kernel Panic on Mdk 8.2 install attempt

Hi,

I'm welcoming suggestions on how to overcome problems I'm having  
installing Mandrake 8.2.

At bootup from CD-1, I get the following: 


Bla bla bla (stuff that flies past too fast to record), then: 
fb0 VESA VGA frame buffer device
block: 128 slots per queue, batch=32
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16RAM disks of 32000K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed PIO modes: override with ide bus=xx
SIS5513: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 01
SIS5513: chipset revision 208
SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
SiS 730
	ide0: BM-DMA at 0xff00-0xff07, BIOS settings: hda: DMA, hdb: DMA
	ide1: BM-DMA at 0xff08-0xff0f, BIOS settings: hdc: DMA, hdd: DMA
hda: WDC AC2850F, ATA DISK drive
hdb: IBM-DTLA-307030, ATA DISK drive
hdc: SONY CD-RW CRX1611,ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: LG CD-ROM CRD-8522B,ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f 0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: 1667232 sectors (854 MB) w/64KiB Cache, CHS=827/32/63, DMA
hdb: 60036480 sectors (30739 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=3737/255/63, UDMA(100)
Partition Check:
	hda: hda1
	hdb: hdb1: hdb2 <hdb5 hdb6 . . . . . hdb13>
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for TET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP,UDP,TCP
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets/ 16Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0
 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:03

I get the above results whether I boot from CD-ROM, or from a boot floppy.

I have also copied "patch.pl" from www.linux-mandrake.com, onto a blank 
(formatted) floppy and basically followed the instructions for its use.  ie 
Bootup from CDRom, hit F1 at the splash screen, insert floppy, type "patch", 
return and  . . . . . the results are identical to what happens if I just 
attempt to boot from the CDRom.  In following this, there is no noticable 
blinking of the light on the floppy drive, so I'm wondering whether the 
installation is failing before enough info. is loaded to direct the 
installation to look to the floppy for patch.pl.  Wild and probably incorrect 
speculation on my part but I wondered if anyone else had experienced this 
problem and found a way around it.

Cheers,

Andrew Lord

PS.  Motherboard contains an AMD Duron 850 MHz chip.  Plenty of memory (256k).
BIOS is set to look firstly to the floppy drive to boot, then to CD/DVD-ROM, 
then to IDE0.

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