Have you tried to view the drive with cfdisk or fdisk from a Gentoo CD?
You may find the problem that way.
Sam.
JohnnyFulcrum wrote:
> 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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