Doug Laidlaw wrote:

> Eric Moors wrote:
>
>
>>> Kernel panic VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:06
>>
>> 03:06 is hda6, which doesn't sound right if this is your knoppix install
>> on hdb. Change your lilo.conf (root= line) *and* run /sbin/lilo
>>
>>>
>>> My bootloader is LILO. I don't get as far as launching knoppix.
>>
>> Then run /sbin/lilo from mandrake with the knoppix's lilo.conf
>>
>> Eric
>
> The "root=" line points to /dev/hdb5, which is correct. Knoppix is booted
> via a /mnt partition in Mandrake. My full lilo.conf is as follows:
>
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> vga=normal
> default=linux
> keytable=/boot/us.klt
> prompt
> nowarn
> timeout=100
> message=/boot/message
> menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
> ignore-table
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
> label=linux
> root=/dev/hda7
> initrd=/boot/initrd.img
> append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi"
> read-only
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
> label=failsafe
> root=/dev/hda7
> initrd=/boot/initrd.img
> append="failsafe devfs=nomount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi"
> read-only
> image=/mnt/knoppix/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-xfs
> label=Knoppix
> root=/dev/hdb5
> read-only
> # restricted
> # alias=1
> other=/dev/hda1
> label=windows
> table=/dev/hda
> other=/dev/fd0
> label=floppy
> unsafe
>
> Vmlinuz is of course Mandrake. There is no initrd in Knoppix. /dev/hdb5
> is
> /mnt/knoppix and is 96% full. Is that relevant? /dev/hdb6 is swap, but
> there is plenty of space (1 GB) in /dev/hdb7, which is unused at the
> moment.
>
> Doug.
>
I reinstalled Knoppix' lilo.conf and was able to boot into Knoppix O.K., but
then I couldn't return to the original without Kernel Panic on both
distros, so I gave up and reinstalled Mandrake. And I was just waiting for
it to stabilize before making an "image" of my Mandrake system with
mkcdrec.

Doug.
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