Ouch, I don't mean to freak you out, but this looks like a serious problem.
Boot into single user mode (ie off a floppy disk or CD-ROM that loads the
kernel, but doesn't mount the drives) and run `fsck` on all your drives
(just to be safe) then try and manually mount each one of your slices in the
correct order, ie first mount "/" then mount "/usr", "/tmp" etc, etc.
If it gives an error in fsck or when you try and try and mount them, make
sure you write down the entire message and give a shout back to the list.
Have you did anything like re-compile your kernel, disable modules, change
hard drives, changed IDE cables, hit your computer with a hammer?
Jack
----- Original Message -----
From: TAG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: linux Newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 1999 12:33 PM
Subject: HELP - cannot mount root fs??
> Hi ALL,
>
> I have a problem - I have no explanation as to how it got started, but
when
> I went to turn it on this morning - it came up with this:
>
> Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:01
>
> there was a whole lot of other stuff before - that looks like:
>
> [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12 FAT ,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap]
>
>
[me=0x0,cs=0,#f=0,fs=0,fl=0,ds=0,dl=0,data=0,se=0,ts=0,ls=0,rc=0,fc=42949672
> 95]
>
>
> and repeated 3 times??
> I am runninr RH6,1 - with Kernel 2.2.13 compiled - it has been running
> beautifully for weeks!!
>
>
> Can anyone please help explain this???
>
> Many thanks
> --Tonino
>
>
>
