[lug] "Kernal panic:"

[Kevin Fenzi]

>>>>> "Ralph" == Ralph Slutz <ralphs at bouldernews.infi.net> writes:

Ralph> I have Red Hat 6.0 installed.  When firing it up, after a
Ralph> couple of pages I received,
Ralph>     "VFS: Cannot open root device 16:42 "Kernel panic: VFS:
Ralph>     Unable to mount root fs on 16:42"
Ralph> Then it froze.  CtrAltDel gave, "Stopping all mp device" and
Ralph> sent me back to bootup.

This is due to the kernel not being able to mount the /
filesystem. has your root filesystem moved?

You can see this message if you try and compile support for your scsi
card as a module and don't build a new initrd. (ie, the kernel trys to
load a module to get to your / partition, but it needs the / partition
to load the module From. ;) 

Ralph> (The time was not 16:42, but 17:05) Can anyone suggest what I
Ralph> should do about it?

Thats not the time, it's the major:minor number of the device it tried
to mount as the root filesystem...in this case 16:42 doesn't
corrispond to any devices at all on my system. You might need to boot
from a rescue disk and re-run lilo. 

Ralph> Thanks in advance,
Ralph> Ralph Slutz ralphs at bouldernews.infi.net

kevin
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