From: Michele Andreoli (m.andreoli@tin.it)
Date: Wed Feb 16 2000 - 18:16:31 CET
On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 03:07:55PM +0100, PAULUZZI LUCA nicely wrote:
>
> Ciao !
Ciao Luca, welcome.
> I have discovered mulinux a couple of months ago and it's wonderful, in
> particular because I'm new to linux and I want to experiment without panic...
> I have installed v7r8 in a ext2 partition and it works well (except for
> some configuration problems... in my head !), but my question is about
> loading it on a laptop. A friend of mine has a IBM thinkpad 340,
> a 486 with 3.7 Mb ram (!):
> If I try to load from floppy it stops and says:
>
> kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 02:3c.
>
> Zipping an UMSDOS installation and copying it on HD it's the same:
>
> kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:01.
Ok, zipping is not the whole matter. In the hard-disk installation,
directory /dev, there is a file:
/dev/root
The cloner create it as symlink to real disk device.
Obviously, if you zip the directory structure, and move it in the
destination machine, the disk-device do not match!
Solution 1
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first of zipping's art, corrupt provvisory your ext2 installation
removing this file (from muLinux itself) and create the new link:
# cd /dev
# rm root
# ln -s hda2 root
In this example, I suppose /dev/hda2 to be the NEW device,
pertinent to destination machine.
When finish, reboot your windows and make the ZIP.
Ok, now this ext2 do not work anymore. Please, use a floppy-mulinux
to fix it.
Solution 2
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Edit with notepad the file c:\linux\etc\fstab, without destroy it.
Check the row with /dev/root and change it as explained you.
> Thanks!
> ... hoping my "englian" (or "italish") is comprehensible...
>
Fractured English Ended Here. Core dumped.
Caro Luca, una volta la lista era tutta italiana, ma era anche
un po' una barba, diciamolo. Ora, come vedi, abbiamo una lista
mittel-europea und trans-oceanica che e' un vero spasso.
Michele
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