TheSquire Posted August 10, 2004 Report Share Posted August 10, 2004 (edited) I get that error message with a kernel panic. The line before asks me to report something EDD to http://linux.dell.com/edd/report.html I went there and it didn't make too much sense to me. Any suggestions? Thanks! Edited August 10, 2004 by TheSquire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSquire Posted August 10, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2004 anyone? I tried to run knoppix 3.3, which has a 2.44 kernel version, and it worked fine. Can anyone tell me what the problem might be? Should I try another distribution? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted August 10, 2004 Report Share Posted August 10, 2004 what version of mandrake are you using? what type of system is this on? what kind of hardware do you have? Do you get the error before or after install? answer those and maybe we can go from there ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSquire Posted August 10, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2004 Ya, newbie here. I forgot...sorry. It's a P4 2ghz and 768mb ram. 80gb harddrive - partitions: C: ntfs; a linux swap 800mb; linux ext3 10gb; D: ntfs; E: ntfs gateway oem intel d845grg mb and ami bios Mandrake 10 Official, downloaded just a few fays ago. I boot with the CD, the first screen appears asking me to hit enter or f1 for more options. Hitting enter starts the installation process, displays some stuff that I don't understand (I can get it for you if you need all of it), ending with "kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on ram3" The line before tells me something about EDD and asks me to send a report to linux.dell.com/edd/reports.html. Looking on there didn't bring me anywhere since I don't know what all that means. Aparrently it's some Bios Enhanced Disk Drive thing, whatever that means. Details here: http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml Thanks for all your help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSquire Posted August 11, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2004 Well I guess I will try another distribution. Thanks for the effort guys! Take care. Christoph Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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