Hi all-

My system running Gentoo just froze and I had to do a hard reset (hit 
the power button).  It would not respond to ctl-atl-del 
ctl-atl-backspace, unplugging usb mouse - hotplug did not "turn it back 
on" (the red light), no pings were returned, and ssh did not respond, 
nmap could not "see" it.

upon reboot I get a Kernel Panic VFS unable to mount root fs on 03:03

the errors messages up to the Kernel Panic are like this (I'm typing all 
this so there may be some typos...)

hda: read_intr: error 0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBA sect=79646593, 
sector=76546048
hda: read_intr: status 0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error}
    <the above two lines three more times>
ide0: reset: success
     <then the frist two lines 5 more times>
      < another reset success>
      <the first two lines again>
end_request: I/O error,dev 03:03
       <repseat all the above again>
       <then kernel panic>

This is a Dell percision 530 with dual Xeon 1.5 Ghz and just shy of a 
gig of ram.
I was listening to music, had opera up, just got done running John the 
Ripper of 5 days on my htpasswd file, and had about 15 aterms open.  I 
just installed Firebird and cvs this morning.

any thoughts on these errors?

thanks
johnnyf

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