easiest way to find / partition is to install explore2fs in windows, if
you have and open each aprtition. You can arrive at conclusion which is
/ partition.
sreangsu acharyya 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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