[newbie] Boot problems

[Alan Shoemaker]

Hi....my system consists of two scsi drives. sda is dedicated to Windows98 and has a single fat32 partition (sda1). sdb is dedicated to Mandrake Linux 6.0 and has 3 partitions (sdb1 is /boot, sdb5 is swap and sdb6 is /).  Boot Magic is installed on the windows partition and boots Windows properly.  But when it boots lilo Linux appears at first to be booting normally until the following error occurs:   Partition check: request-module[block-major-8]: Root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device 08:16 Kernal panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 08:16   Then the system freezes.  ctl-alt-del will reboot it.  Linux boots just fine with a floppy boot disc.  The floppy boot disc's lilo.conf is:   boot=/dev/fd0 timeout=100 message=/boot/message prompt image=/vmlinuz-2.2.9-19mdk      label=linux      root=/dev/sdb6      initrd=/initrd.img image=/vmlinuz-2.2.9-19mdk      label=rescue      append="load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1"      root=/dev/fd0      initrd=/initrd.img The lilo conf in sdb6 /etc/lilo.conf is:   boot=/dev/sdb1 map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=50 image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.9-19mdk      label=linux      root=/dev/sdb6      read-only other=/dev/sda1      label=dos      table=/dev/sda   What is wrong, any ideas?   Alan