What are you passing to the kernel on the floppy for the root
filesystem? Remember that if hda has died and been removed, then what you
think of as hdb is now hda. So you'll have to tell the kernel that root is
/dev/hda2, not hdb2.
--rdp
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Charlie Farinella wrote:
> Good morning, I'm hoping for advice.
>
> My computer at home has 2 hard drives and the master has crashed. The
> secondary drive is partitioned like so:
>
> hdb1 <extended> containing
> hdb5 linux swap
> hdb6 windows data
> hdb7 /home
> hdb8 /opt
> hdb2 /
>
> Lilo is on hdb2.
>
> I created a boot disk with the kernal image from /boot and tried to boot
> from floppy.
> I get this:
> VFS kernel panic open root device 08:34
> unable to mount rootfs on device 08:34
>
> Questions:
> 1: Is there a way for me to boot to Linux so I can use the machine in it's
> present state?
> 2: Any recommendations for a new hard drive?
>
> --charlie
>
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> Charlie Farinella
> Appropriate Solutions, Inc.
> 603-924-6079
>
>
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