Dylan wrote:
On Saturday 28 February 2004 00:44 am, Dr. David M. Colburn wrote:
I moved a SuSE 9 Pro formatted and loaded HDD to a newly assembled PC. ASUS A7V8X-X Rev 1.xx w/256m RAM, etc. 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"
OK, 03:43 refers to what?
You'd have to ask whoever coded the error message script, I have no idea.
I've had two issues with drives which I swapped from one box to another. The first came down to the bios settings - One machine was using the real physical cylinder/head/sector values, and the other was using a logical remapping. I'd assumed that would be irelevant for Linux (it not using the bios settings for hd identifacion etc... and it being a purely data drive) but although the partition was mountable it was the wrong size and the directory listings were garbage. Until I managed to force the bios to accept the correct settings. I figure the remapping was going on at a level where Linux couldn't bypass it.
That is odd, perhaps it has been resolved in the latest versions?
The second was a drive which had to have different jumper settings - it has a setting for solo device on the IDE channel and a different one for MASTER with slave.
That is always a first-check item as I have seen inconsistencies from hdd to hdd caused by jumper preferences.
Yeh, I know - it's probably not relevant and I'm rambling... I'll shut up now. You could try using something like toms boot disk to extract the data first. Dylan
Thanks for sharing and trying to help, I just have to get this thing resolved so I can get the ancient K6 off my desk and this Athlon 2500 Barton-based box in its place ... waiting for things on the old K6 is killing me! ;-) dmc