you might want to rey making a boot disk and a root disk and botting the
machine with the flopies and then running a manual fsck to check the file
structure of the partition you are trying to mount root on. When that
file system is messed up you will usually not be able to mount root on
there and the kernel will 'panic'
so try that
-Brad
On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, gene hitz wrote:
> I wrote to the list a few weeks ago. I'm the newbie who wanted to know
> how to get started with Linux. I received many helpful responses from
> the group and finally decided to try the Slackware version. I
> downloaded the 35,663 Kb zipfile and unzipped it into a new clean
> partition and wound up with 15 directories containing 10,989 files. I
> tried following the readme.1st file unsuccessfully. In DOS, I tried
> "loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/sda4 rw" and after several pages of
> installation I got the message, "vfs: cannot open root device 0804"
> and "kernel panic: vfs: unable to mount root fs on 0804", and the
> machine locked-up. When I next tried "loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1
> rw" it answered "unable to open initial console" What am I doing wrong
> and how do I proceed?
> Gene Hitz -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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