Thanks for your response, and sorry about the delay. I get the time to work
on the server only on weekends.

Henrik Carlqvist wrote:

> Madhusudan Singh <spammers-go-here@spam.invalid> wrote:
>
>> VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:03
>>
>> I am using the kernel that I used in the installation
>> (adaptec.s).
>
> For some reason you seem to be unable to mount the root partition. This
> could be because you can't see the partition or because the partition has
> an unknown file system.
>
> As you are using the adaptec.s kernel, do you se any text about your scsi
> card and scsi drives while booting? It usually takes some time to detect
> scsi disks during boot so even with a fast computer you should be able to
> at least see some text about your scsi card.
>

I am using this kernel because the help indicates that it is needed for the
Adaptec RAID controller that I have.

> I'm not sure if this still works after a kernel panic, but shift-page-up
> scrolls the screen so you will be able to see all kernel messages from
> boot. Do you see anything about the partitions? Something like this:
>
> Partition check:
> hda: hda1
> hdb: hdb1 hdb2 < hdb5 hdb6 hdb7 hdb8 hdb9 hdb10 >

I do see the following error (thrice repeated) :

kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadaptor, errno=2

>
> But in your case it should be called sda instead. If you are able to see
> your scsi-card, your disc and your partitions it is probably support for
> the file system that is missing. Which file system did you choose?
>
> regards Henrik


When I installed the OS, I could see the /dev/sda partitions (I used
cfdisk /dev/sda to create them).

For the / partition, I chose ext3 (ext2 for the /boot partition).