Help! Kernel panic!

[nojo]

Its been awhile since I posted, but here goes.
I'm following the directions from the book "Setting up a Linux Internet Server". And after installing the directed packages the pc starts to reboot. But right after the portion where "autorun Done". I have a message that goes like this "Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:01"
What's going on? Could somebody explain.
Thanks! :confused:

[bdg1983]

A very popular question here.

Seems like the bootloader cannot find your root partition. Did you make any changes to /etc/lilo.conf or /boot/grub/menu.lst?

Time to use your bootdisk and then verity the bootloaders configuration file is correct or not and make any changes that are necessary.

[recluse.]

Look at the messages that fly by your screen as you boot up, it should list the location of your harddrive i.e. /dev/hda, for me it's /dev/hde5, since I have windows on the first partition, though I don't know why, haven't used it for an awfully long time.

If you use lilo to boot up this is what I would do after figuring out what the root partition is, stick in linux boot disk, at the prompt enter 'linux root=/dev/hde5' or whatever.

[nojo]

Well, I reloaded Linux again checking my settings and this time I chose the MBR to boot up LILO. Now it boots all the way to the login prompt. :D