ACK! Here's the deal: I have a pentium III500Mhz machine with a SCSI HD in it. I had 6 partitions installed: / on /sda9 /boot on /sda1 /swap on /sda5? /home on /sda7? /var on /sda8? /FAT on /sda6 FAT was created because I wanted to have 1 partition setup with the FAT filesystem, so that I could access it if I had to boot from a DOS floppy (don't ask, just trust me). I discovered the RHL bug in the installer that requires you to format all paritions you created, even if you don't want to, so I had to make the /FAT partition into ext2 filesystem. I then attempted to reformat it for DOS once the RHL OS was up, but couldn't figure out how to do it. So I decided to try deleting the /dev/sda6 (/FAT) partition using cfdisk, then rebooting in DOS, using DOS's fdisk to create a dos partition, and format it from there in FAT. So, I booted up into linux single user mode (becuase I was lazy and it takes less time to boot than multi user mode), then ran cfdisk and deleted the partition. I wrote the result to the partition table. It told me to reboot. Just to make sure, I remounted it before rebooting and checked that I had in face deleted the correct partition. When I rebooted, I got this message: VFS: Cannot open root device 08:09 Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:09 And it won't boot! Please help if you can! This is my new email server that's supposed to go up tommorow evening 8-( IS it because I deleted the partition in single user mode? Or what? Thanks in advance, Brian _______________________________________________ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
