Re: [SLE] What does the 03:43 refer to?

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Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 11:14:54 -0500
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Dylan wrote:
> On Saturday 28 February 2004 00:44 am, Dr. David M. Colburn wrote:
>>I moved a SuSE 9 Pro formatted and loaded HDD to a newly assembled
>>PC. ASUS A7V8X-X Rev 1.xx w/256m RAM, etc.
>>No matter how I try to get at it, Default, Failsafe, and all the
>>other Linux boot menu options under SuSE I get this error:
>>"Kernel Panic VFS Unable to mount root fs on 03:43"
>
> OK, 03:43 refers to what?

You'd have to ask whoever coded the error message script, I have no
idea.

> I've had two issues with drives which I swapped from one box to another.
> The first came down to the bios settings - One machine was using the
> real physical cylinder/head/sector values, and the other was using a
> logical remapping. I'd assumed that would be irelevant for Linux (it
> not using the bios settings for hd identifacion etc... and it being a
> purely data drive) but although the partition was mountable it was the
> wrong size and the directory listings were garbage. Until I managed to
> force the bios to accept the correct settings. I figure the remapping
> was going on at a level where Linux couldn't bypass it.

That is odd, perhaps it has been resolved in the latest versions?

> The second was a drive which had to have different jumper settings - it
> has a setting for solo device on the IDE channel and a different one
> for MASTER with slave.

That is always a first-check item as I have seen inconsistencies from
hdd to hdd caused by jumper preferences.

> Yeh, I know - it's probably not relevant and I'm rambling...
> I'll shut up now.
> You could try using something like toms boot disk to extract the data
> first.
> Dylan

Thanks for sharing and trying to help, I just have to get this thing
resolved so I can get the ancient K6 off my desk and this Athlon 2500
Barton-based box in its place ... waiting for things on the old K6 is
killing me! ;-)

dmc

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