On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 21:52, Richard Frovarp wrote: > I'm looking for some help in installing the stable version of Debian. I > am having a problem with it reading the root disk. After loading the > rescue disk it prompts for the root disk, but does not read the drive. > After hitting enter I get this error: > > request_module [block-major-2]: Root fs not mounted.
Probably : your root disk is corrupted, just create another one and try again. This of course if you effectively switched from rescue to root when prompted for. Michel. > > Hitting enter again gives me a kernel panic error. I have tried the > compact, base, unstable, idepci installs and they all fail to even try > to read the fd0 drive when asking for the root.bin disk. Doesn't matter > which disk or even if I have no disk in there, it throws the same > errors. > > I'm running an P4 with these components: > > Asus P4T-E (Socket 478) > P4 1.7 > Leadtek Geforce 3 Ti 500 > Creative Live! 5.1 > 3COM 905c > Belkin Firewire > > It had Windows 2K installed on it buy the builder to test it and works > just fine. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Richard Frovarp > http://atl.ndsu.edu > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
