[luau] kernel problem???

[Jeff Mings]

Does it boot "completely" when you use a startup floppy?  That is, when you 
boot with floppy and then type the mount command, do you see /dev/hda8 
mounted?

-Jeff

On Monday 29 April 2002 02:17 pm, you wrote:
> Hi, my linux server started making strange beeps when I started it
> recently and it wouldnt go into the initial ram loading screen.  Someone
> recommended that I "reseat" the ram so I did that and now it starts
> partially.  When I say partially I mean it requires my floppy boot disk
> to load when it never needed one before.  Now it freezes up during the
> loading sequence with this message:
>
> VFS: Cannot open root device "hda8" or 03:08
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic:VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:08
>
> any ideas would be much appreciated.
>
> -Ronnie