Re: kernel panic, and installing gcc

[Kevin Saenz <kevin spinaweb com au>]

It looks like you haven't either told lilo what you have done or you have
entered in the wrong info in the /etc/lilo.conf file. I have had that error
a number of times to find that I entered something stupid in the lilo.conf

> Hi,
>
> Time and time again. I get this : Kernel Panic: unable to mount fs on...
> message and I have to reinstall Linux from scratch. I have opted to boot
> always from a floppy and am not giving up on that. First  thought that my
> boot floppy is corrupted, so next time I installed Linux I made multiple
> coopies with mkbootdisk. But then I got it again, and I reinstalled. Then
> its about 5 times. I even changed computers two times. I changed the
> installation CD. Nothing worked. It works good for a while, then the same
> kernel panic msg on boot.
>
> What I want here is that if you could tell me where to find info about this
> cursed kernel panic msg.
>
> One more thing. If I dont install gcc at first time, and I want iot, one
> option is to reinstall linux. the other, I presume, must be to unzip a .gz
> or .tar file. But I dont see any gcc.gz file on my CD though there are
> gawk.gz and others. What to do!!!
>