[luau] kernel problem???

[Ronnie T Livingston]

Nope, it doesnt boot up completely.

Since my boss just recently purchased redhat 7.2, I thought Id try and
upgrade from my current 7.1 to see what happens.  I get to the "upgrading
your system" section and it says:

"you dont have any linux partitions you cant upgrade this system"

I only have linux on this machine and everything worked ok this morning.
Could my hard drive have died?

-Ronnie

 On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Jeff Mings wrote:

> 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
>
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