Re: [TCLUG:17349] Boot error: kernel panic

[Daniel Taylor <dante@plethora.net>]

It is trying to mount its root partition from /dev/hda6 and
failing completely.  This would be an indication that (perhaps)
the disk partitions got rearranged at some point or that hda6
got reformatted.

Daniel Taylor                Embedded and custom Linux integration.
dante@plethora.net           (612)747-1609

On Mon, 8 May 2000, Larry Crisp wrote:

> One of my coworkers here at work installed Redhat as a dual boot with
> win98 on a PII that wasn't being used for much.  It has been a "mess
> around with" install, so I do not know what has been done with it, or even
> that it ever booted at all.  I tried booting it earlier today, and it
> stopped with the lines:
> 
> isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=03:06, iso_blknum=16, block=32
> kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:06
> 
> Now, I realize that Linux is unable to access the superblock (or
> something) and cannot mount the root drive, but what I do not know is what
> might have caused this and how it can be fixed.  Anyone have any thoughts
> or suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
>   --Larry
> 
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