On Tue, 06 Feb 2001 13:07:03 +0100 (CET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter) wrote:
> Hi
> 05 Feb 2001, "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> SH> "kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:100"
> that tells you, that LINUX (the kernel) can't find your filesystem.
> I don't know that linux distribution, but I guess it uses loadlin.
> than you have to tell the kernel (usually vmlinuz) which device is your
> root partition
> there should be a programm called rdev.exe ... simply involve it without
> parameters, and you get a help.
There is no program named RDEV.EXE in my distribution. Here is the file
list:
BASLINUX.GZ
BOOT.BAT
BOOTBAT.TXT
LOADLIN.EXE
MAKE_FD.ZIP
README.TXT
ZIMAGE
Here is BOOT.BAT, the program that I ran when my computer locked up upon
encountering the error message:
loadlin zimage root=/dev/ram rw initrd=baslinux.gz
I don't understand it. This is the first time I have ever tried to run
any distribution of LINUX. So I know nothing about how to run LINUX.
I am just trying to learn about it.
> SH> BTW, this experience did not result in lost clusters and other such
> SH> annoyances.
> sure ... it didn't even know where to look for your harddisk, so it can't
> even load your parition.
> Exactly this was the reason for the error message. (here called kernel
> panic)
> The computer did _NOT_ lock up.
Yes it did. Upon encountering the error message my computer would not
respond to any keyboard inputs other than CTRL-ALT-DELETE. I could not
terminate the batch processing simply by pressing CTRL-C.
> The kernel started, and tried to load (mount) your root partition, and
> because of wrong configuration, it could not find thw HDD, and therfor
> can't go on processing.
> So the kernel is in panic, because it can't continue booting.
> _BUT_ the kernel told you so ... simply read the message !
Of course it was perfectly obvious to me that it can't continue booting.
This I easily inferred from the message.
> SH> What did I do wrong?
> tell linux where it can find it's root partition.
> (containing /etc, /var/log, /bin, /sbin ...)
Well, I don't know how to do that.
> SH> Sam Heywood
> SH> P.S. BTW, if I can fix this problem and get this BasicLinux thing
> SH> working, then would it be possible for me to run any Linux versions
> SH> of Arachne?
> these strange mini linux distributions are usually very outdated. (though I
> don't know this special distri)
> if you update some libraries this should be possible.
> _BUT_ if this distribution uses UMSDOS, than it's nothing but a toy !!
> running linux on a FAT filesystem is ........... no comment ;)
> It's only good for the first steps ..
OK, then it should be good for me. This *was* my first step and I faltered.
Sam
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