It seems you CDROM drive needs cleaning. You see, Linux is quite demanding as regards the hardware health. You can try a CD cleaning kit, and may be blow some air into your CDROM drive to dislodge any dust particles.
--narsingh --- Yash Dayal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am sorry for not making the subject line > descriptive because at this point of time i was too > crushed to write any cool definitive subject line... > Well basically i have two problems... > 1. Whenever I try to install linux, i always get a > kernel panic error (unable to load root filesystem) > whichever mode i tried....text, expert, > rescue....its still the same problem... > The config of this machine is 10 GB HDD as primary > Master > 20 GB HDD > as primary slave > cd rom is secondary master > > 2. On my own machine, amd 400Mhz, 64 Mb ram, i am > running linux successfully, uptil redhat 7.1. now > after upgrading to 7.2 (also a clean install) i am > unable to Acccess my CDROM drive, i always get > "/dev/cdrom is not a valid block device" whenever i > try to mount it... > hoping for some helpful answers from the linux gurus > out there.... > > Yash > > > > > > --------------------------------- > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards® ________________________________________________________________________ For live cricket scores download Yahoo! Score Tracker at: http://in.sports.yahoo.com/cricket/tracker.html ================================================ To subscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscribe in subject header To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header Archives are available at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org =================================================
