Just got a wonderful message

[Shawn Robinson]

Linux newbie, tried to upgrade the kernal to the 2.4 version that comes with the cds,  guess i missed a direction somewhere,  but i got a real nice message: Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 3a:05\     Guess it's time to reinstall.   Only took 7 hours last time on this pos system i'm playing with.   Shawn.