when i boot Linux SUSE 7.3 as a primary slave, with windows 2000 as a primary master.
it dispatch the error message "unable to mount root fs 3:02"
what should i do?

I suspect you have asked this on other forums. I also suspect you didn't tell us you moved the drives or changed the bios after you installed an os. hehe

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kernel 2.6: unable to mount root fs
February 12, 2004 - 4:08pm
asavva

I had this same problem running on two different machines. I am not sure what causes it but the fix I used was to specify the major and minor numbers of the device that holds the root filesystem.

Eg. If "/" is on /dev/hda2 then type "ls -l /dev/hda2" and you will see the major and minor number of the disk, for example on my system I get:

brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 2 Sep 15 14:40 /dev/hda2

Therefore the (major, minor) number are (3,2).

Translate this number to hexadecimal and pad to a two digit number, eg: 3,2 becomes 0302 and you have the hexadecimal form of the block device.

Now you can use this in place of "root=/dev/hda2" or "root=LABEL=/" in /etc/grub.conf

Thus you would use "root=0302" in my case. This should also work with lilo but I have not tested this.

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From http://kerneltrap.org/node/1955

I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you peanut.

hi all of you
i have two hard discs,on one with win 2k and the other with Linux/SUSE 7.3

but when i boot SUSE it dispatch the error messages
FAT:did not find valid FSINFO signature
Kernel panic:VFS:unable to mount root fs on 03"02

what should i do?

For some reason I think I answered that already.

I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you peanut.