RH 5.2 Crash, please help?

[Aaron Prohaska <verdesoft verdesoft net>]

I have posted this message a couple of times without getting any
response. Does anyone know of a solution to this problem or do I have to
re-install everything. I would really appreciate some help.

Yesterday I was working in win98 (this is a dual boot system) and I
happen to crash it. No big suprise since it happens often in win. So win
locked up and all I could do was turn the system off and then back on.
Only when I turned it back on I just got Lil at the command prompt and
couldn't boot anything. At this point I was still not too concerned and
just broke out my boot disk thinking all would be well. Figuring I could
just go and re-install Lilo. Except then when I tried to boot from the
disk I get this error:

Partition Check:
hda : hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8
[MS-DOS Fs Rel. 12,Fat 12,Check=n,conv=6,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022]
[me=0xe2,cs=3363,#f=204,fs=24914,fl=38037,ds=51214,de=8702,data=51784,se=20259,ts=472725201,ls=29194,rc=0,fc=4294967295]
Transaction block size=512
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05

I don't know what all the char=somenumber means, but I know the kernel
panic at the end is bad news. I am sort of hoping not to have to
re-install everything.

Thanks in advance,

Aaron
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