Ok, I tryed the text.gz root disk with the same result. kernel panic: vfs: unable to mount root fs on 02:1c Pete ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Persuric" <blndpete@xxxxxxxx> To: "Christopher Moore" <w1gm at writeme.com> Sent: Friday, March 10, 2000 7:22 AM Subject: Re: booting problem Hi Christopher I tryed using rawrite this morning, and now the bare-i.apc boots! and It asks for the root disk! cool! OK, now the root disk goes in, color.gz, and I get a super read failed, and at the end a kernel panic: vfs: unable to mount root fs on 02:1c I'll try the text.gz root disk next. Pete Peter, Rather than using loadlin, I'd copy the files on two floppies and boot from floppy. I generally use the text.gz because it has the text-based installer. Chris
