[PLUG] kernel panic

[Fred Davis]

I haven't touched any system files in a while, everything was working just
fine, unti lthis last time I tried booting up.

right now there are 2 partitions on the harddrive: a 2G /dev/hda1 for
win98, and /dev/hda2 is 2G ext2 for Debian (which it can't mount as root)

I can still boot into win98 and it works fine.

I downloaded explore2fs to see if I can read any of the files on /dev/hda2
from windows. It recognizes /dev/hda2, but when I click to see the files
on it, it gives me an Access Error or something like that...

assuming I didn't change any system files, does this mean the filesystem
is corrupted?
If so, any way I can save any of the files?

-fred

On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Rick Redman wrote:

> > [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
>
> Are you sure you didnt change your FSTAB or anything? This look like it
> is trying to mount your root partition (which is USUALLY ext2). But instead
> of finding an EXT2 partition it is finding a MSDOS/VFAT partition instead.
>
> Maybe you specified the wrong root=/dev/hd__ in lilo.conf ?
>
> Or maybe your hard-drive ate itself?
>
> -R
>
>