Hi. I am trying to switch my debian 2.0 to a new hard drive. It was on a drive partitioned with dos on hda1 and hda2 and linux native and linux swap on hda3 and hda4 resp.;
I partitioned the new drive with hda1 as dos, hda2 as linux native, hda3 as linux swap. I copied (only) dos c: to hda1, and all of the linux to hda2. I altered lilo.conf to reflect these changes and ran lilo; I changed fstab. I also ran mkswap. Now with the new drive on the first ide socket I get the lilo prompt ok. If I choose dos, then dos boots and runs ok. But if I choose linux, the boot process runs part way and then hangs with a kernel panic after the partition check, with the message "kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 03:03" The partition check gives "hda: hda1 hda2 hda3" which is what I think it should give. I've checked and rechecked the lilo.conf stanza for linux and it says root=/dev/hda2 and the fstab entry is the same. Can anyone suggest what I've missed or forgotten? I'll supply more details if needed of course. Thanks. chuck
