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Ramanan Rajeswaran (ramanan@netspace.net.au) wrote:
: I attempting to install Linux on a second hard drive, however, with
: not much luck. I'm using slackware 2.3 and my system config is as
: Panasonic Quad Speed CD-ROM

[SNIP]


: The 1.2 Gig has a 1gig primary DOS partition and a 200 meg extended
: DOS partition. It is connected as the Primary Master.
: The CD-ROM is connected to the Primary Slave and the WD HDD is
: connected as Secondary Master. Currently it boots to my 1gig DOS
: partition. 

: After booting with the linux boot disk i arrive at the boot prompt. At
: that point i've entered "mount root=/dev/hdc" so that it can install
: on the WD. After about 20 sec. or so it stops and brings up the
: following message "Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
: 16:00"


Try this:

mount root=/dev/hd1a

You might also want to load the root disk first, rather than attempting to
work on the drive first off.  Let fdisk show you whaat you have
available, after you tell it about /dev/hd1a.

(This same problem came up with a friend of mine and his new pentium,
and this is how he solved it.)

: My next attempt was to leave the boot prompt blank. In doing this I
: got to the point where I could login as root and prepare to fdisk and
: setup. However when i type fdisk it only detects /dev/hda (quantum
: drive).

You have to pass the parameters above to fdisk - e.g. fdisk /dev/hd1a


: I've tried also tried "fdisk /dev/hdc & /dev/hdb" but it says unable
: to open /dev/hdc & /dev/hdb
: It is also having trouble detecting the CD-ROM at boot up. It says no
: cdrom unit found.

This will probably be /dev/hdc or somesuch.  That's the least of your problems
right now.


Cheers

Chris

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Chris Saunderson	saundo@byron.apana.org.au
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