On Wednesday 13 June 2001 14:51, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Today's cooker install, recommended, went fine until Network Setup when
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> > "kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 21:05".
>
> This seems to be /dev/hde5. Please verify that the kernel correctly

[20:54 peter@penguin:~]$ ls -la /dev/hde5
brw-rw----    1 root     disk      33,   5 Apr 14 12:06 /dev/hde5

Pardon me for butting in, but would someone please explain where the "21" 
comes from?  It looks as if the 05 after the colon is the minor number - I've 
often wondered about these messages.
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