Re: help on install RedHat 7.1

[Mick Mearns <mrkingdaddysir yahoo com>]

--- Goutam Baul <goutam rpgnet com> wrote:
> 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


Hello
   I went here:

http://hardware.redhat.com/hcl/genpage2.cgi?pagename=details&hid=41

and your box is marked "easy" for everything under 6.2.

So something else is wrong.
Try 'fdisk /mbr' under dos to clear out the mbr.
Did you fully format the drive under dos?

Can you get the drive to boot dos and see the cdrom?
Termination ok? 
anything external? - if so is it powered up?

Does you scsi controller let you do diags during the boot sequence?
if so verify, or just format the drive.

let us know

Mick



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