Gidday Randy Just a stab in the dark. Have you tried removing the added memory? On one occassion that I know of, 3 individual sticks were faulty and were producing all kinds of weird problems. My friend replaced one stick while trying to track down an intermitent problem on a windoze pc, and the problem was still there. After a few more hours of troubleshooting, thought it pointed to faulty memory again and this time put the current mem into another pc and sure enough, this pc now had weird problems.
Mem test was fine on boot up on both PCs. Another trip to the local hardware store and try again. Still no go in either PC. (one batch of 20 sticks, and this guy got all 3 faulty ones, for the same repair job, the others were fine) I think the moral of the story is "Don't trust nuthin' unless you've tested it yourself" Max Randy Sweeten said on Sunday, October 21: > I searched Google and other search sites as Sridhar suggested, and found > little. Other folks have had this error, but none of the message threads > included the solution. > > I did discover the actual error is best described by the line: > request_module[block-major-7]: Root fs not mounted. > The references to "7" and 07:07" are some kind of location descriptors, and > the problem is most likely partition related. > > I booted from a install floppy and got into rescue mode. An "fdisk -l > /dev/hda" gives the following: > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 * 1 2032 2048224+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) > Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary: > phys=(1022, 15, 63) should be (1022, 31, 63) > /dev/hda2 2033 14913 12984048 f Win95 ext'd (LBA) > Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary: > phys=(1022, 15, 63) should be (1022, 31, 63) > /dev/hda5 2033 8128 6144232+ b Win95 FAT32 > /dev/hda6 8128 14913 6839752+ b Win95 FAT32 > > Does anybody know what this means, and if it is related to my problem? And > maybe some hints on fixing it? > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sridhar Dhanapalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Mandrake Newbie List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 8:51 PM > Subject: Re: [newbie] Unable to mount root FS on 07:07 > > > > On Sat, 20 Oct 2001 20:28:22 -0700, "" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Help! > > > > > > I'm running Mandrake's Linux for Windows, and all of a sudden I cannot > boot up > > > Linux. Boot screens show: > > > > > > request_module[block-major-7]: Root fs not mounted > > > VFS: Cannot open root device 07:07 > > > Kernal Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root FS on 07:07 > > > > > > I did nothing in Linux that I know of; it's possible my daughter booted > into > > > Linux by mistake and turned off the power to get out of it. (It's hard > to get > > > a confession out of a 9 year old!) > > > > > > I added memory since the last time I booted Linux, and I was > experimenting > > > with a USB tape drive in Windows, but did nothing about it in Linux. > And I > > > tried removing the USB tape drive and rebooting Linux, to no avail. > > > > > > I can boot up to an Linux install disk and get to the rescue mode. What > do I > > > do there? > > > > I don't know about this specific error, but I have found that Google and > Google > > Groups can be great for searching for this kind of thing. Go to them and > try > > entering something like "Unable to mount root FS on 07:07". > > > > -- > > Sridhar Dhanapalan > > > > The three Rs of Microsoft support: Retry, Reboot, Reinstall. > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > ---- > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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