----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Ruskin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 4:43 PM Subject: Re: Win95 replacement
> 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 says IDE next to it during windows bootup, so I assume that it is not a SCSI drive. I checked the devices tab on the system folder and didn't see a SCSI controller listed. > > It looks like you need to need to revisit the disk partitioning and > formatting stage. > I wish I could revisit it, but I haven't gotten that far in the linux installation. However, on the topic of partitioning, right now the drive has four (windows) partitions due to that old limit of 2 gig partitions (3 - 1.97 gig partitions and some change). Could this have an impact on the boot record? I had a similar setup on a previous computer and didn't have any problems, so I am just reaching right now. Would some sort of partitioning software help (partition magic, system commander)? Thanks, Derek _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
