On Sun, 2027-07-25 at 17:31, Erylon Hines wrote: > Thanks Civilme, I'll give that a try. > > Now for the last thing. On every one of the 8.2 installations (3 different > machines), I've gotten a kernel panic on the first boot with the message: > > "Error: VFS: can't locate 0801 or 08:01 > Kernel panic: can't locate root fs" > > So, I booted with the boot floppy and looked around and found no "initrd=" > line in lilo.conf. I added "initrd=/boot/initrd.img" to lilo.conf and then > re-ran lilo. Then, because there was no initrd.img in /boot, I copied the > initrd.img file from my boot floppy to my /boot, and everything has worked > fine since. > > What's up with this? I've used Mandrake since 6.x something-or-other, and I > haven't seen this happen before. Was my solution the correct one? Have I > missed something in the jump to 8.2?
Turns out I'm having the same trouble from power on, but I didn't pay it a lot of attention, because a reboot would cause the system to come up normally. I have been noticing it more because recently I've been powering up alot; and that's when it occurs. I don't think the cause of my problem is the same as yours, however. I have both an initrd statement in lilo.conf and an initrd image in boot. I'll have to power down and see if I can replicate the error so I can write it down; the error doesn't make it to var/log. LX
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