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To follow up on my previous message I have found the solution to
the first problem. The message "Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount
root fs on 01:00" was in fact caused by a memory detection problem. I
have 128M of RAM and unless I say so with a "mem=128M" the kernel gets
confused at some point. I should have specified the amount of memory I
have but since it seemed more related to the disk...
For the partitionning now. I still only see two partitions. So,
to tell you more about my disk, it' a Quantum SCSI VIKING II 9.1WLS.
According to Linux fdisk the geometry is C=1110 H=255 S=63 so I get a
warning that it has more than 1024 cylinders. But I don't see why it
would prevent me from seing the logical partitions. Here is what fdisk
tells me about the partitions:
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1 65 522081 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/sda2 66 66 1110 8393962+ f Unknown
And cfdisk tells me:
Name Flags Part Type FS Type Label Size
/dev/sda1 Boot Primary DOS FAT16 (big) [ ] 509.88
/dev/sda2 Primary Win95 Extended (LBA) 8197.23
The problem is /dev/sda2. It is an extended partition not a primay
partition. But fdisk will not let me change it's type to 05 which is
for Extended partition. If I go to the extended functionality and ask
for the list of extended partitions I get an empty list.
So maybe the solution is to change its type to 05 but how do I do
that ?
Now here is what Win95 fdisk tells me:
Partition Status Type Volume Label Mbytes System Usage
C: 1 A PRI DOS WIN95 510 FAT16 6%
2 EXT DOS 8197 94%
Thanks to Harter for telling me about /proc/kmsg. The only problem is,
when I type "cat /proc/kmsg" cat does not show anything and blocks
until I "kill -9" it. But I've found that now that I can boot ok
Alt+F4 will show me the last 25 lines of the boot messages.
Francois
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