it seems you are trying to use a root fs on the ntfs partition which is
not supported in the boot kernel. not even read only. when you see the
08:01, that means the first partition on the first scsci drive.
you can change this by passing root=/dev/sda6 to the kernel in the prom.
later,
tomduffy
On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Gabriele wrote:
>
> Hi *,
> it seems a nightmare!
>
>
> On my SGI 540 I have 8 partition:
> sda1 ntfs
> sda5 fat
> sda6 linux ( / )
> sda7 linux ( /myhome )
> sda8-11 swap
>
> NT is on partition 1.
>
> As soon as I install linux RH 6.0 + 2.2.10 and bot the system .. I get
> the following error:
>
> Partition check:
> sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9 sda10 sda11 sda12 >
> fat_read_super: Bad fsinfo_offset
> fat_read_super: Bad fsinfo_offset
> Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01
>
> Why ?
>
> regards
> Gabriele
>
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