OK so /dev/hda5 is not your root partition and you dont which one it is.
No harm there just a little more work.
boot again and at lilo keep giving root=/dev/hda6
if that doesnt work, then next time root=/dev/hda7...so on,
You are bound to hit root at some point or the other. And though its not
really needed you can add the "readonly" option to the lilo.conf in your
floppy. You can also pass it as an option at LILO: prompt, I am not sure
of the exact syntax, have to lookup the HOWTO.
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Christopher Vasanth wrote:
> Hi Sreangsu:
>
> No luck. Here is the lilo.conf file from the bootable floppy disk made
> with mkbootdisk
>
> boot=/dev/fd0
> timeout=100
> message=/boot/message
> prompt
> image=/vmlinuz-2.2.14-12
> label=linux
> root=/dev/hda5
> initrd=/initrd.img
>
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05.
>
> I changed it to root=/dev/fd0 to make the floppy as root but it also did
> not work.
yeah thats unlikely to work. Basically you need the partition where you
had mounted the "/" directory on your hard disk, so in case you which one
it is, then you can direclty replace the name or just try them out
sequentially.
But just a thought, was this floppy made from this machine and the last
installation? In that case the correct partition should have been there on
the lilo.conf file.
sreangsu
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