Re: RH 5.2 Crash! Help!

[Aaron Prohaska <verdesoft verdesoft net>]

Hi Rob, I don't know enough about what I am doing to know if I am using
umsdos. My guess is that I am not, but I really don't know. Unless its
something really obvious that would tell me. At this point I think I am
just going to re-install everything. I want to go the re-install route
because I am going to try and get a partition setup of Linux that
windows won't see. Currently windows still thinks it has all of the hard
drive. I think this is creating problems. So I am going to use fdisk to
delete the partitions I am using for linux and see what windows does the
trying to look at deleted partitions. I am using the fdisk on the
windows boot disk. Is there a different fdisk that I should be using? I
didn't think it would matter, but am only guessing.

Aaron

Rob Napier wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 05:28:34PM -0700, Aaron Prohaska wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> It looks like you're trying to boot off of your ms-dos partition. Do
> you have linux on a umsdos? If so, does your boot disk's kernel have
> msdos support compiled in (not a module)?
> 
> Rob
> 
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