Re: Kernel Panic

[Roy Cottingham <ke9vo@ntslink.net>]

Most likely has nothing to do with it but......
where is lilo installed?

Booting from the MBR or /boot, or / ???

I remember seeing somthing about lilo not wanting to work properly from a
partition which is above cyl 1024, espically if you modify the kernel.

ok... just looked it up.... RH says that the partition that holds /boot must
'be located entirely below cylinder 1023' 
also says that 'you may have a situation where LILO will work initially (because
all the necessary info is below 1023), but will fail if a new kernel is to be
loaded, and that kernel resides above cyl 1023'


  Thats my 2 cents worth .....

Roy


On Wed, 19 May 1999, you wrote:
> Jeff,
> 
> Thanks for the advice I believe that I have that set correctly since df
> reports my root partition as being sda7 and that's exactly what I put for
> that line.  I would appreciate any other help you could give me.  This
> problem baffles me since I've upgraded kernels a lot on my IDE based system
> with no problems.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jeff Licquia <jeff@luci.org>
> To: <luci-discuss@luci.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 1999 7:56 PM
> Subject: Re: Kernel Panic
> 
> 
> >
> > On 19 May, Ben Story wrote:
> > > Kernel Panic
> > > VFS Cannot mount root fs
> >
> > Make sure that your /etc/lilo.conf has a line that starts with "root="
> > and that the device it refers to is correct.  If you have to change it,
> > re-run lilo.
> >
> >
> >
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