Mandrake 7.2 won't boot

[gianfranko]

I have absolutely no trouble installing Mandrake 7.2 into a logical drive in an extended ext2 partition. But upon reboot the machine will start booting linux (I think) and stall. It displayed the message: "stage1" and after it stalled. Any suggestions?

[bobarian]

Originally posted by gianfranko:
I have absolutely no trouble installing Mandrake 7.2 into a logical drive in an extended ext2 partition. But upon reboot the machine will start booting linux (I think) and stall. It displayed the message: "stage1" and after it stalled. Any suggestions?
Are you booting form a floppy?

[gianfranko]

No, I am booting from the hard disk drive

[gianfranko]

when I try to boot from the floppy created during the Mandrake install, I get the following messages:

isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=08:12, iso_blnum=16, block=32
kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 08:12