Nope, it doesnt boot up completely. Since my boss just recently purchased redhat 7.2, I thought Id try and upgrade from my current 7.1 to see what happens. I get to the "upgrading your system" section and it says:
"you dont have any linux partitions you cant upgrade this system" I only have linux on this machine and everything worked ok this morning. Could my hard drive have died? -Ronnie On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Jeff Mings wrote: > Does it boot "completely" when you use a startup floppy? That is, when you > boot with floppy and then type the mount command, do you see /dev/hda8 > mounted? > > -Jeff > > On Monday 29 April 2002 02:17 pm, you wrote: > > Hi, my linux server started making strange beeps when I started it > > recently and it wouldnt go into the initial ram loading screen. Someone > > recommended that I "reseat" the ram so I did that and now it starts > > partially. When I say partially I mean it requires my floppy boot disk > > to load when it never needed one before. Now it freezes up during the > > loading sequence with this message: > > > > VFS: Cannot open root device "hda8" or 03:08 > > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > > Kernel panic:VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:08 > > > > any ideas would be much appreciated. > > > > -Ronnie > > _______________________________________________ > LUAU mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau >
