Hard drive crash (fwd)

David Kramer david at thekramers.net
Fri Feb 2 12:46:34 EST 2001


On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Derek Martin wrote:

>
>
> 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
>
>
>

Or create a single-linux full linux system on another box like the one
available at http://www.toms.net/rb/

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