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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