On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, J Holley wrote:
> Dear all - my usually trusty AST Asentia laptop - has yet again trashed my
> linux (Redhat 5.1) partition after a save/restore machine state when the
> battery went flat in DOS - before I attempt to tackle a recovery - can
> anyone please suggest anyway to recover from :-
>
> "Kernal Panic - unable to mount root on VFS" ...
Boot with a rescu/install floppy and make sure the partition table is ok.
Maybe also mount the partition and make sure it's ok. If it is, reboot and at
the lilo prompt type "root=/dev/hda1" or whatever partition your root is.
ciao,
der.hans
> I would greatly appreciate any advice - anyone else had a problem with
> partition trashing after a battery failiure in DOS/win ?
>
> Regards, Julian.
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