[SWLUG] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3, 8)

[Julian Hall]

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Neil Greenwood wrote:

> Julian,
>
> The way I used the live CD is as follows (since I didn't make it
> clear earlier):
>
> 1. Boot the live CD
> 2. Mount the broken root partition into any directory of the running
> live CD: in my case, I mounted it in /mnt

Problem straight away here.  Knoppix mounted all the partitions except
the broken one.  Ubuntu (5.10 Live) didn't mount any so I had to
create the root user login just to be able to do it manually.  I
mounted hda1 using the commands:

mkdir /mnt/test$a
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/test1

That worked.  However trying to mount /dev/hda2 as /mnt/test2
complains about not knowing the fstype.  Why would this one be
complaining when the first didn't?  Incidentally hda1 is the Windows
C: drive.

Kind regards,

Julian
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