Hi, Am Samstag, 28. Februar 2004 06:17 schrieb Dr. David M. Colburn:
No matter how I try to get at it, Default, Failsafe, and all the other Linux boot menu options under SuSE I get this error: "Kernel Panic VFS Unable to mount root fs on 03:43" I can live without the old contents of the HDD if it is necessary. to format the thing. dmc
Have you tried booting from the installation CD/DVD and choosing the 'repair' option?? It bailed me out a time or two... HTH...
Tried all of the suggestions, the thing isn't interested in booting via rescue disks (linux SuSE9, RH9, KRUD, or Win98), nor does it want to allow me to do a new SuSE 9 Pro install ... to that request I get a bright red box: "An error occurred during installation".
Guess I will boot with the Win98 disk and do a "format/s c:" and then run a fresh install of SuSE 9 Pro.
If you have no data on your hard disk that you would feel sorry to lose ...
This is my morning project ... unless someone has a better suggestion.
... formatting the disk and restarting from scratch will not be necessary. You say that the install systems bails out on you with an error. Have you tried the "save settings" option. Anyway, you could also start the rescue system (from the boot menu of the same CD/DVD) and then mount your existing root partition (for now, I assume that you know which partition is your root partition - if you don't come back to us with the output of "fdisk -l" from within the rescue system and we'll help your with that too). Then you do mount /dev/hdb3 /mnt (according to your error message about 03:43 /dev/hdb3 would be your root partition) chroot /mnt grub < /etc/grub.conf exit reboot Greetings from Bremen hartmut