How did you install? Did you install through CD? Or did you prepare any rescue CD?
OK Whatever you ***do not need*** to reinstall anything. All you need is to install the bootloader again using lilo. to do that there are two ways, one is using the rescue boot floppy other is using the BOOT CDROM (which may be your installation media). OK now if use r-floppy then boot from floppy then run lilo -v and see whether it spits out any error messages. and try to add few more entries using the same kernel. and make sure you did not make any partition table entry correction like changing the the partition number for linux root yada yada... Now if you boot using RH/Mandrake CDs you can go to the rescue shell by using the hot key CTRL+ALT_F2 (Or try any other combo, each distro might program it differently though.) Mount your root at somewhere like mount -t <whatever fs> /dev/<whatever file system device> /<somewhere> example mount -t ext2 /dev/hda2 /2 set up the proper path after mounting the fs. now set up the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH and make sure you have the /2/lib and /2/usr/lib comes first in LD_LIBRARY_PATH then export it. now do chroot to you root partition using chroot /2 then run lilo -v that it is you are all set to go but even if it does not work I think that you may have grub already installed then use grub to install the bootloader if your lilo still fails to boot. to do grub locate grub may it it will be in /usr/sbin then set up proper path. then now if you have that already installed then you might have that already configured for your machine, if it is the case then run /boot/grub/install/sh you should be all set to go then -Chandra --- Amit Bhargava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am no using RAM for AGP purpose, My i810 m'board, > uses 2MB RAM and when I > issued the mem=255M at Lilo it went in the machine > very well reading that > amt. fo RAM, (even the free command showed the > correct value) > > but when edited the lilo.conf, the problem started > and was unable to get > back into the system and presented with the error: > > Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount the root fs at > 16:00 > > now what on earth does that means, I cannot go into > rescue mode / single > mode. Does that means that my machine is now a big > dubba and need to > reinitialize the same, again. > > Amit > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at > http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-india-help mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1 _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
