8.2 - kernel panic

From: Solar (solar_at_ds14DOTaghDOTedu.pl)
Date: 01/27/04 

Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 13:12:39 +0100

Hi,

While booting I get message:
Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:42
Can't guess why:(

Root fs is /dev/hdb2 (reiser fs).
In /etc/fstab I have line:
/dev/hdb2 / reiserfs defaults 1 1

I used reiserfsck. Seems ok.

I noticed that before I had got that message about kernel panic I had
had about 4.0 kb free on /dev/hdb2. When I restarted the system - kernel
panic.
Now there is about 56Mb free on /. Didn't help...

Could that be the matter? Should I free more space? Can I somehow get my
system back or do I have to reinstall it?

Best regards,
Solar

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