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 > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list