I've run into a huge stumbling block with Linux. It's a very sad story, I think.
Here's what happened:
Had old motherboard with AMD K62-400 processor, installed rh7.1 a year ago june, I never had any significant problem making it boot or anything. Well, being greedy, I decided to buy a new motherboard and a Duron-1200 processor. Slapped that in, linux started up just fine, didn't have any problems. Well, a few weeks later, the power went out and I experienced processor failure for one reason or another. After I replaced the old motherboard/processor, I find that linux will *no longer start correctly*
The kernel begins booting, but it freezes after the line which reads:
"Freeing unused kernel memory: 224k freed" (system still responds to ctrl-alt-del)
oh, that's using the 2.4.9-34 kernel. I try my backup kernel (2.4.9-2x, i don't remember exactly the number), and it does the exact same thing.
Then I try the boot disk that I made during installation of linux. It gives me the above message, then immediately after, gives me this message:
"Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:06" (no response to ctrl-alt-del)
Well, I become desperate. I pop the red hat cd in, and boot from it into rescue mode. It gets into a shell, and mounts what should be my root partition (/dev/hda5) on /mnt/sysimage, like it's supposed to. Now, as far as I can tell, everything that was in there is still in there. Everything in my user directory is intact, and I don't notice anything missing from any of the other directories. So I try "chroot /mnt/sysimage". The system spits out:
"Illegal instruction"
Oh, I'm dual booting with win98, and it starts up just fine and dandy, which is how i'm writing this. Any suggestions are appreciated.
-keith
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