On Sunday 16 Dec 2001 23:52, Derek Blazer wrote: > Hello all, > > I recently acquired an older computer from a co-worker and I wish to > get rid of windows95 and replace it with linux so that I may play. I > have tried loading Redhat 6.1, Mandrake 7.0, and Caldera 2.3. All > three have given me the same error: "Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount > root fs on 08:04". I have briefly searched the step-by-step site and
This is telling you that it can't mount the root filesystem on device major 8 minor 4, which, according to /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt is /dev/sda4 - the fourth primary partition of the first SCSI disk. Is your 6GB disk SCSI? It looks like you need to need to revisit the disk partitioning and formatting stage. > the Caldera users list archive to no avail. The only references in the > archive for this kind of task only say to boot the linux installation > CD and proceed, well that doesn't seem to work in this case. Can > anybody shed some light on this? Any suggestions would be greatly > appreciated. Here are some details about the computer: > > Pentium 150 > 80 meg ram > 6 gig hd (Seagate, I think) > Creative Labs Banshee with 16 meg sdram > > > Derek > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users -- Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, Wales. Registered Linux User No. 219434 ( see http://counter.li.org/ ). Mandrake Linux release 8.1 (Vitamin) for i586 Kernel 2.4.8-34.1mdk-win4lin, XFree86 4.1.0, patch level 21mdk. KDE: 2.2.2. Qt: 2.3.2. Uptime 3 days 8 hours 3 minutes. ------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
