Incase you are very much in doubt the easy way to find out is by booting
thru the redhat bootable cd, simulate the installation procedure and choose
fdisk or diskdruid so that it will show you the partition table of your h/d
, don't do any changes but just restart with ctr+alt+del this should
solve.You can also fix up yourlilo problem by using update option instead
of setup and using the menu. Remember to use the custom installation.
-shyam
At 03:36 PM 1/11/2001 +0530, you wrote:
>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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