I believe that is bad news. A reinstall might be in order, but I would wait
until some more kowledgable person responds. You might try to boot from the
install cd into rescue mode and manually try to mount your root partition.
That might give you more information.
Good Luck,
Mark
On Tuesday 31 July 2001 10:14, you wrote:
> Okay, a few weeks ago I installed Mandrake 8.0 on my computer but have been
> a little busy with classes and have not been able to fiddle with it
> much. Anyway, a few minutes ago I decided to try and fiddle with it. Now,
> it was working fine last time I tried, but now it goes through LILO and
> then if I choose Linux it shows me this:
>
> kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05
>
> Of course, it's all greek to me. What should I do. I can't do anything
> after it shows that. I don't have anything imortant on my linux partitions
> so reinstalling is an option, but I want to make sure I don't just set up
> another linux partition. Thanks.
>
> Coop
>
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