My point (not very clear) was that if both the CD-ROM and the bad drive
are on the same IDE channel, you may have problems. If you can boot with
the HD disconnected, that would be likely, so then you could try it with
the devices on different IDE channels...
Vern
John McKelvey wrote:
Folks,
Thanks for the comments ...
What I was attempting to do was use Knoppix to see if I could rescue
information from an XP-PRO drive. As far as I can tell Knoppix seems
to start up OK, but dies with the message belowwhen it is looking for
a hard drive to analyze
"Kernel panic.. not synching: VFS: unable to mount root fs on
unknown-block(1,3)"
While I am wondering if any rescue software would work if Knoppix
can't find the drive in question I certainly am not savy about any of
the "black magic" that might be out there somewhere that might help
resolve the problem. While I fear a dead disk, XP-PRO does try to run
a CHKDSK on the drive, so maybe all is not lost.
I'm still open for comments and suggestions.
Thanks again..
John
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Vern Ceder <[email protected]> wrote:
I would unhook the bad hard drive and see if it can boot Knoppix then. If
both the hard drive and the cd drive are on the same channels, then a bad
device can cause all devices to fail.
Vern
John McKelvey wrote:
My wife has an XP-PRO machine that won't boot either in safe or normal
modes.
I tried a Knoppix live CD and it responded
"Kernrl panic.. not synching: VFS: unable to mount root fs on
unknown-block(1,3)"
Is this the worst possible?
John
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Vern Ceder, Director of Technology
Canterbury School, 3210 Smith Road, Ft Wayne, IN 46804
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This time for sure!
-Bullwinkle J. Moose
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Canterbury School, 3210 Smith Road, Ft Wayne, IN 46804
[email protected]; 260-436-0746; FAX: 260-436-5137
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