Stan, On Wednesday 13 April 2005 18:48, Stan wrote:

Hello the Net:

I have a start up problem with Suse 9.2 on my Intel D865Perll MB, 2.4 Ghz HT cpu, with 1 Gb ram.

booting hangs after about 100 lines of progress.

message reads:

Kernel panic -not synching: VFS: unable to mount root FS on unknown-block(3,7)

What should this mean to me ?

I'm not at all sure what it should or does mean, but I can tell you that I have that motherboard and it works great with SuSE 9.1, so presumably it should be compatible with 9.2, as well. I use SCSI disks on an Adaptec 39160 controller. The only IDE drives I have are two DVD recorders.

bad ram, (passes MemTest fine) bad hard drive Maxtor 60 Gb IDE ( passes MAXTOR performance tests) bad motherboard (IDE controller) (bios is set to enhanced, sata + ata devices) bad CPU

If the symptom is completely repeatable, it's probably not a CPU or RAM problem. It could be the hard drive or the IDE circuitry. What's the configuration of all the mass storage devices on the IDE busses? Is the hard drive the master and the (presumed) CD or DVD the slave? Are they on the same bus, or is one on the primary and another on the secondary? If the latter, which? Are you upgrading or installing over an existing system, or is this all new hardware? Basically, you haven't given us too much to go on. There are a lot of possibly pertinent BIOS settings. For example, if you're not using a SATA drives, you should probably just disable all the SATA functions. Have you checked whether you're running the latest BIOS? If not, you should flash the latest version before going any further.

Thanks, Stan on Cape Cod

Randall Schulz