help on install RedHat 7.1

[Goutam Baul <goutam rpgnet com>]

Hi Mick,

I tried with only one partition of 4GB and the same thing happened.

goutam



>>--- Goutam Baul <goutam rpgnet com> wrote:
>> Hi everybody,
>> I am having a Compaq Proliant 400 server with a 4GB SCSI hard disk and
>> 128MB RAM. I am trying to load RedHat7.1 on it. I have done the following
>> things:
>> 1> booted the machine from a dos boot floppy and ran fdisk on the hard 
diak
>> to creat two 2GB partitions.
>> 2> I have marked the first partition as active and have made it bootable
>> (with format /s)
>> 3> tried to load Linux by starting the machine with the first CD in the CD
>> drive
>> I am getting the following error:
>> VFS: Cannot open root device "" on 08:41
>> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
>> Kernel panic : VFS: unable to mount root fs on 08:41
>>
>> Any help please !!!!
>
> Goutam

>Hello;
>   You have told the system that you have two DOS style ( fat/vfat)
>partitions.
>Actually one of them is garbage.
>Easy way is to go back to dos and 'format d: /u'

>Mick