Well, unfortunately I'm still getting the CMOS check sum error even after
the new battery install. I am again at a loss.  Can I do a bios update even though
I can't boot up? Or will that even help?
Jeff

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"Eric D. Wertman" wrote:

> Jeff-
>
> It doesn't appear that there was anything wrong with your initial
> partitioning scheme, although I've never tried to create a fat partition with
> a linux partitioning tool, and there is a limit of 4 primary partitions on a
> disk - looks like you have 5 partitions, that could cause problems if the
> wrong ones are extended (root, swap, and the windows bootable partition
> should not be within an extended (or logical) partition).  Typcially the
> message you were getting from the kernel "Cannot open Root Device .." is most
> often caused by an incorrect configuration of lilo.  It's looking for / on
> the wrong device.
>
> The error you are getting from your CMOS could be the problem.  As
> suggested, a battery replacement may help.  What type and how old is the
> mother board you have?  There could be an issue with the size of the drive.
> Did it ever work?  A BIOS update could help as well.
>
> If that doesn't turn out to be the problem, you can look for a utiltiy that
> will write zeros to your drive and try to partition the drive from scratch.
> I'd be surprised if IBM doesn't have such a thing.
>
> I'd make sure that your board and drive are both functioning properly
> together before tackling the OS problem.
>
> Eric Wertman
>
> On Monday 23 April 2001 11:39 pm, you wrote:
> > Hi Eric,
> >
> > That's consoling.  I used the diskdrake to partion the drive. The first
> > partion is Root / which acts as the mount point for the other partitions.
> > The second is the Swap partition, the third is /usr , forth is /home.
> > I then created a windows partition on the rest of the drive or at least I
> > thought I did.
> >
> > This gets really messy now. Since then I tried to reinstall ME. I used
> > fdisk and tried to get rid of the linux partions/ .  I used a rescue disk I
> > created on another computer with ME. When the A:> prompt came up I type in
> > fdisk / mbr then went back to try and reinstall ME It's telling me it
> > cannot create a temporary C:/ drive to install ME with. The disk format is
> > not recognized.
> > I tried a rescue disk I made during the Mandrake istall and now I get the
> > message that there is now operating system.
> > I think that's about it.  I appreciate any help
> >
> > Jeff Greene
> >
> > Eric Wertman wrote:
> > > 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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