Kernel panic!

What may be the possible causes of these letters being jumbled?
Moreover what damage may be involved eg: hardware or
software/filesystem?
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason" <jkenner@mindspring.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
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.
>

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