I wish I could I cannot even get into the system. I have a rescue disk but honestly wouldn't know what to do. I know hdparm is risky but I did everything the same as I did in Rh 6.2 and experienced no problems. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason" To: Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 8:42 PM Subject: Re: Kernel panic! > John W wrote: > > > > I am running RH7.0 on an AMD k6-2 500,64MB,15G Western Digital udma 33 ,Asus > > P5a mobo,s3 vid card,ensoniq sound card. > > I ran #hdparm -c3 /dev/hda to change to 32bit I/O and then logged out of > > root and back to user. When gnome came up it froze and nothing would back it > > out of X and without knowing how to get it to reboot I had to reset the > > box(I'm sure thats the problem) :( > > I get the following error after autorun' > > ext2-fs error (device ide0(3,7)):ext2_check descriptors: > > block bitmap for group 1 not in group (block 0)! > > ext-fs:group descriptors corrupted! > > invalid session number or type of track > > kernel panic:VFS: Unable to mount root filsystem on 03:07 > > Any help greatly appreciated!!! > > John > > Try it again, and compare the output of: > hdparm -i > with > hdparm -I > > If the letters are jumbled.. the damage may well be far more severe / > difficult to fix than the typical hard reboot. > > -- > jkenner @ mindspring . com__ > I Support Linux: _> _ _ |_ _ _ _| > Working Together To <__(_||_)| )| `(_|(_)(_| > To Build A Better Future. | > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss