Have you an IDE or SCSI HD?
Is it 1st Drive or 2nd, 3rd, or 4th?
What partition did you install to?
/dev/hda <--- 1st IDE drive
/dev/hdb <--- 2nd IDE drive
/dev/sda <--- 1st SCSI drive
/dev/sdb <--- 2nd SCSI drive
etc.
1st partition on first IDE drive /dev/hda1
2nd partition on 3rd SCSI drive /dev/sdc2
etc.
Starting to sound like it would be easier for you to reinstall. If you do,
look for packages
lame
sag
nag
and install them. Documentation of a first rate nature... Once installed
you will find them in
/usr/dos/LDP
Read 'em! Many things will become clearer.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Leonard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 5:10 AM
Subject: RE: [newbie] how do i get in
> have tried those, when booting from cd rom, whatever i do without initrd=
i
> am sent through to the install screen, that being the graphical
> installation. if i go with initrd= and this happens now on a number of
> combinations including the boot disk i get
> VFS: cannot open root device 00:00
> Kernal Panic: VFS: Unable to mout root fs on 03:01 (also on 00:00 & 00:01)
>
> so i am a wee bit confused, i also tried some of Richard Bonebrakes advice
> on fdisk/mbr, but i kept on getting the same thing.
>
> should i just reinstall or will i be able to get into the mandrake that is
> on my computer
>
> somewhere
>
> mewing all the way
> alex
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> Jon
> Sent: 09 April 2000 04:43
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] how do i get in
>
>
> > Alex Leonard wrote:
> >
> > i have lost dual boot, and now my boot disk doesnt work, it freezes at
> > LIL
> > it wont get through to the O
> >
> > how do i get in, it is all there installed on my computer but i cant
> > use it. help
>
>
> First off, you turn off the HTML in your mail composer so we can read
> your cries for help...
>
> If you can boot off your cdrom, put it in and reboot.
>
>
> Otherwise, boot into Windoze and make bootdisk from one of the images on
> the cd.
>
>
> Once you are on your way to booting up a screen will come up asking for
> any parameters to pass to the kernel.
>
>
> linux root=/dev/hda1 initrd=
>
>
> Use the real partition of your root of course. If your partitions have
> changed (You installed another OS Maybe) you can make a "rescue" disk to
> allow you to boot a small version of linux and do system mantenance such
> as fdisk -l /dev/hda to look at your partition table and figure out
> where linux is...
>
>
> initrd=
> tells it to not run the install program and it is very important to
> remember to put it in...
>
> Once you get in rerun /sbin/lilo
>
>
>
>
