[ale] why Linux hurts/disappoints me more than once

[Narahari 'n' Savitha]

Ok friends, one of the members corrected me on my hard drive comment.

Assuming the hard drive is still doing good, how do I fix this
successfull-installation followed by this unable to mount root fs error.

I want this to work so I can move on to the next steps

-Narahari

On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Narahari 'n' Savitha
<savithari at gmail.com>wrote:

> Friends:
>
> I have this decently good machine AMD BE2400.  I have Windoze on it for my
> other folks at home to use as my pseudo-HTPC.  I wanted to convert that to
> MYTH TV SERVER(It has 2 TB of storage)
>
> Installed UBUNTU 10.04 server, installation went fine but then after reboot
> I got Unable to mount root fs unknown block (0,0).
>
> Cleaned out that install put the DEBIAN SQUEEZE on the machine.  The
> installation went fine but this time also after reboot I am getting Unable
> to mount root fs unknown block (0,0).
>
> Before you folks say anything, this is quite a new Hard drive, may be 1.5
> year old, very light use.  So bad hard drive is ruled out.
>
> Any hints how I can fix this ?
>
> -Narahari
>
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