THe problem you describe is *probably* just the result of your using the
wrong bootdisk. A bootdisk is set up to boot from a specific disk partition,
and with a specific partition as the root (/) filesystem. It appears that
your desktop system has a /dev/hda6 partition that it uses as root. The
bootdisk you are using can't find that partition on your laptop, since it
only goes to hda5. I get this from this portion of what you sent:
>Partition Check :
>hda: hda1 hda2 <hda5>
>Attempt to access beyond end of device
>03:06 rw=0, want=2, limit=0
>ext2-fs : unable to read superblock
>Attempt to access beyond end of device
>03:06 : rw=0, want=1, limit=0
>Fat bread failed
>Kernel panic VFS : Unable to mount root fs on 03:06
03:06 is the designation for /dev/hda6 .
You need to boot from either the hard disk itself, from a boot floppy made
for the laptop, or from a rescue floppy that can be told to mount the
correct root filesystem (probably /dev/hda5).
At 03:03 AM 1/19/00 -0500, c rogers wrote [in part]:
...
(1) I made an attempt to install RH 5.2 ( the only distro I had floppies
for) System is as follows:
...
>Booting from the floppy using the boot disk created on my desktop when I
installed R H 5.2 there, ( one may have either a floppy or a cd not both )
LILO runs, kernel loads and uncompresses normally until it comes to:
>
>Partition Check :
>hda: hda1 hda2 <hda5>
>Attempt to access beyond end of device
>03:06 rw=0, want=2, limit=0
>ext2-fs : unable to read superblock
>Attempt to access beyond end of device
>03:06 : rw=0, want=1, limit=0
>Fat bread failed
>Kernel panic VFS : Unable to mount root fs on 03:06
>
>
>In your opinion will the creation of a swap partition solve this problem..?
I'm pretty ignorant as to what these error messages are telling me.
>
>I also feel a little unsure about using that boot disk from the other
machine to boot on the Compaq. I am unable to use both the floppy and the CD
on the Compaq laptop since they plug into the same port, and removal while
under power is strongly discouraged.. any suggestions..?
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