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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 23 Apr 2001 21:50:54 -0400
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Re: wipe,format linux hard drive
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Hello-

Your drive is not toast.  How did you partition the drive?  Without knowing
the specifics, you can at least use DOS fdisk to delete the non-dos
partitions.  If you can explain a little more about what you did with the
install I can give you more info.

Eric Wertman

> The error message I get when loading linux:
> "VFS: Cannot open Root Device 16:01
> Kernel Panic: VFS:Unable to mount Root Fs on 16:01"
>
> I've tried everything. including reinstalling windows,
> rebooting with the emergencie boot disk, installing
> different version of Linux, which did install but on
> a partition after the first install. I can't get to
> any to any kind of prompts so I can unistall.
> Any suggestions or is my new 75gig ibm toast?

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