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.

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