[olug] linux install

[Jon]

Very easy to diagnose your problem. 
The kernel panic is because the kernel that was loaded doesn't have support for your ata card.  When your kernel is missing native support for the drive or is missing support for the file system that is root it will panic and freeze.  Bascially you need to install either a custom kernel or find one of mandrakes that supports your ata 66 card.  your other option is to put a root partion on a drive connected to the motherboards ide and have the drivers for your card compiled as a module.  Anyway I hope this is clearer than mud.  Building custom kernels I have made the mistake more than once of not including support for ext2 and i get that error on boot.  Because modules reside in the filesystem you have to compile support for your root filesystem into the kernel.

On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 07:59:02AM -0500, barlow wrote:
> When is the next time everyone will get together for one of those install
> feast? I have tried to install mandrake 8 with no success. I get an error
> like this. kernel panic:VFS: unable to mount root fs on 21:05
> I have an amd k6 III 400,128mb,two hard drives one western and the other a
> maxtor. I have a siig ata 66 pci card that my hard drives are hooked
> into.not sure of the motherboard cause I didn't build this system. I have
> searched for help on the web if any of you can help that would be great!
> thanks for your time
> 
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