[GLLUG] RedHat 7.2 installation problem

[Jeff Vanderlaan]

Thank you everyone for your advice, the best solution turned out to be different hardware.  I have 7.2 up and running.

Jeff

On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 10:09:25 -0400
Jeff Vanderlaan <jvan at kvc.net> wrote:

> I am having a problem installing RedHat 7.2 on an Dual Athlon 2000 machine.  The last three lines of the boot message are below:
> 
> >EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock
> >isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=09:00, iso_blknum=16, block=32
> >Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 09:00
> 
> The machine is a Dual Athlon 2000, Tyan Motherboard, on-board Adaptec SCSI Ultra 320 controller.
> 
> I have run linux dd and installed the driver (downloaded from Adaptec), the system goes through it's normal installation process, claims to complete successfully and then craps out on reboot.
> 
> 8.0 installs fine, but I need 7.2 for the applications I'm trying to run.
> 
> HELP!
> 
> Jeff
> 
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> Jeff Vanderlaan
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Jeff Vanderlaan
Operations Supervisor - Technology Dept.
Lansing School District
517-325-6425 x 1140
jvan at lsd.k12.mi.us