[plug] RHL 6.0 install probs

[Daniel Pearson]

How tho.. I can't even get into install with RedHat 6... And so I tried
Mandrake 6.1, and got into install, but when it started to copy the files
the sscreen went garbled, and all I could see was VFS mounting error

-Daniel
----- Original Message -----
From: John Summerfield <summer at os2.ami.com.au>
To: <plug at linux.org.au>
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 7:24 AM
Subject: Re: [plug] RHL 6.0 install probs


> > I'm trying to install RHL 6.0 from the pocketbook
> > And I type autoboot, then it does it's stuff and it says
> >
> > VFS: Cannot open root device 08:21
> > Kerneel Panic: VFS: unable to mount root FS on 08:21
> >
> > Any ideas how to fix that?
>
> Lashed out and bought a couple of SCSI drives?
> It seems that it's trying to mount root on /dev/sdb5
>
> If you know the correct value for your root system, you can override it at
> the lilo prompt, maybe
> linux root=/dev/hdb5
>
> for the first secondary partition on your second IDE disk.
>
>
> --
> Cheers
> John Summerfield
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