[plug] weird boot hassles, corrupted fs?

[bk]

On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 03:33:23PM +0800, Jamie Moir wrote:
> 
> ok, here is a weird one, the guy whos place im staying at here in
> melbourne mounted its drive read only and on reboot did this
> 
> Parrtition check
> hda: hda1 hda2
> [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12, Fat 0, check=n, conv=b, uid=0, gid=0, um,ask=022,
> bmap]
> [me=0x4, cs=0, #f=36, fs=65536, fl=16250, ds=6507510, de=0, data= 6507510,
> se=8192, ts=84017408, ls=5120, rc=0, fc=429467295]
> transaction block size = 512
> Kernel panic: VFS : unable to mount root fs on 03:01

checked fdisk -l?

> 
> Well i guess its corrupted somehow ... its not a dual boot, only linux and
> the debian rescue image produces the same error, any hints on fixes ?

with root=/dev/hda1? it shouldn't matter anyway or influence the result
since it is attempting to mount the root fs but it's corrupted.

-David (bk at bofh.ns.ca).