[PLUG] kernel panic

[Fred Davis]

PLUGgers,

got this message upon boot up of a Debian 2.2.18 box

[regular bootupstuff]
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[Ms-DOS Fs. Rel. 12 FAT0, check=n, conv=6, uid = 0, gid = 0, umask=022, 6 map]

[me=0x2,cs=0,#f=25,fs=0,fl=0,ds=0,de=5376,data=336,se=9515,fs=0,ls=1024,
rc=0,fc=4294967295]
Transaction block size=512

invalid sesison # or type of track
Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:02

What should I do? Is there anything I can do... I really need the data on
that partition... backups are a couple days old

any help is appreciated

-fred