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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>when i try to boot a rescue i get a DMA timeout, i
have no idea if that means my HD is bad or what, i know what DMA is but that is
about it.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A href="mailto:evisuale@mn.mediaone.net" title=evisuale@mn.mediaone.net>Erick
Stohr</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
href="mailto:tclug-list@mn-linux.org"
title=tclug-list@mn-linux.org>tclug-list@mn-linux.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, September 22, 2001 10:17
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [TCLUG] broken system</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am getting this erro message when booting my
linux system, happens when the partitions are being checked:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>request_module[block-major-8]:Root fs not
mounted</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>VFS: Cannot open root file device
08:32</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kernal panic VFS Unable to mount root fs on
08:32</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Any ideas? I have booted and looked at the system
with "rescue" mode and run fsck on the partitions, but have no idea what else
to do. thanks for any help.<BR><BR>Erick</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>