🚀 go-pugleaf

|It sounds a lot like Linux being unable to mount its root filesystem. 
|If I am correct, the symptoms are:
|
|When you boot Linux from the hard disk, the normal, kernel bootup
|messages appear, but then you get "kernel panic" and can go no further.
|
|When you boot from floppy, the exact same thing occurs.

It's important to note WHEN the panic occurs. If it says cannot mount
root partition on device xx:xx, then that's the case.

|My suspicions are that the NT installation has somehow altered the
|partition table of the disk that Linux was on.  Try to check out what
|the partition table currently looks like;  use the FDISK program under
|DOS to display the partition info.  If ALL the partitions seem to be
|"owned" by DOS or NT, you're in trouble.  If one partition seems to be
|"unused" or unrecognised by FDISK, you may be able to recover.

Possibly the partitions got renamed or shuffled around and Linux is
trying to mount the former place.

|You know, I would not put it past Microsoft to include some code in the
|NT installation process that intentionally looks for a Linux partition,
|then corrupts it if found.

Nah, they're not smart enough to do that in all cases. :-)

	Ken