Hard drive crash (fwd)

[Derek Martin]

On 2 Feb 2001, at 10:36, Charlie Farinella wrote:

> Good morning, I'm hoping for advice.
> 
> hdb2  /
> 
> I created a boot disk with the kernal image from  /boot and tried to boot
> from floppy.
> I get this:
> VFS kernel panic open root device 08:34
> unable to mount rootfs on device 08:34
> 
> Questions:
> 1:  Is there a way for me to boot to Linux so I can use the machine in it's
> present state?

You might try booting with your floppy, and at the LILO prompt, type

  linux root=/dev/hdb2


-- 
Derek Martin
Senior System Administrator
Mission Critical Linux
martin at MissionCriticalLinux.com 


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