[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I had my system hang last night while running a statistical process. I used > Ctrl-Alt-Delete to > reboot. Now I get a kernel panic. > > UMSDOS: msdos_read_super failed, mount aborted ....... > > HPFS: hpfs_read_super: Not HPFS ........... > > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05 > > Does 03:05 mean 3rd harddisk, 5th partition? Linux is on Harddisk 1, > partition 05.
03:05 means the device with major number 3, minor number 5. This is in fact /dev/hda5. > Other things I have tried. > > Booting from floppy, same error. > > I have OS2 on my system as well. I dualboot to DOS and try the Debian install > CD, but I get > > boot from dos install > ran out of input data ---system halted > > When I was compiling a kernel before I was able to use this to reset lilo but > now it won't > work. > > I have ext2-os2 so I should be able to read my linux partitions from OS2, but > I am not able to > read the Linux partition. > > Any suggestions on how to solve this problem? Boot the rescue disk. After you get to the menus go down all the way to the option to exit to a shell. At the shell prompt run: 'e2fsck /dev/hda5' to fix the file system. Good luck! -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
