If you need to recover the data on that disk, we have had some luck swapping in the circuit board from another (identical) drive then doing the recovery with a LinuxCare BBC. Might work. Patrick McCabe ----- Original Message ----- From: Amy Tanner <amy at real-time.com> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 11:15 AM Subject: Re: [TCLUG] linux boot problem > On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 10:30:21AM -0500, andy at theasis.com (andy at theasis.com) wrote: > > > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount rot fs on 03:01 > > > > > > What things can I try to get the box up and running? > > > > Try a different boot floppy? > > A rescue disk? > > tried - doesn't recognize a harddrive. > > > > What tests can I do to determine if the data on the harddrive is still > > > there? > > > > Rip out the HD and throw it in another system. Mount the partitions > > somewhere and take a look at the filesystem. > > neither the bios or a rescue disk recognizes the harddrive. also put the > harddrive in another box and same thing. guess the harddrive is fried. > damn. > > -- > Amy Tanner > amy at real-time.com > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >