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From: Adam Goryachev
Date: Fri, 03 May 1996 00:00

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Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> 
> Graham Chapman (grahamc@zeta.org.au) wrote:
> : >I installed Lilo and all was fine untill I recompiled my kernel using make
> : >zlilo.
> : >
> : >Now when I Get the lilo prompt and select linux, it loads the kernel fine,
> : >detectes all my hardware etc etc..
> : >but cannot mount the root partition. It dies with Kernel panic unable to
> : >mount root at location 3:41.
> 
> Yes, but "make zLILO" should do this.
> --
> Hamish Moffatt      moffatt@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au           ph: 019 429 086
> Second year student of B.App.Sci (Comp.Sci), B.Eng (Comp.Sys.Eng), RMIT City
> (Second year group T representative.) http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~moffatt
> Fan of Linux, OS/2, Star Trek, brass and classical music. 486PCI/133/16/2100

The problem is rather simple... well, kinda, you need to have support for 
your root partition type (ie, IDE/SCSI) as well as support for your fs, 
ie, ext2, try re-compiling with those things set to y (ie, not n or m) 
and make zlilo, and all should be fine

Adam, a first year UNSW drop-out

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From: Adam Goryachev <adamg@ipacific.net.au>
Subject: Re: Redhat Lilo Problem...
Date: 1996/05/03
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