what I would do is run a rescue disc (I like to use the install CD and
choose the execute shell menu option)
and then use cfdisk to see what partitions you have available.
Then run e2fsck on each of them (other than the swap)
scott
Paul M Foster wrote:
>I'm setting up a Debian system on a computer that doesn't yet have a
>UPS. Power went down and the system rebooted. Now it gets the error
>message:
>
>Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:02
>
>So I put in the rescue/boot floppy and restarted the machine. It went
>through an fsck on the /dev/hda2 drive (the main partition). I thought
>maybe that would do it. Reran lilo just to be sure. Then rebooted
>without the floppy, and the result is the same.
>
>I'm not sure exactly what the problem is, nor what tools I can use to
>fix it. Any ideas? Also, where do I find these "03:02" numbers and such?
>
>Paul
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