Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs oa 16:40
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and everytime i reboot after installing it gets as far as saying boot to cd which there is no cd in the drive, the Bios just checks anyway, the it says L 99 99 99 99 99 99 for about 6 lines of the screen. sounds like a lilo problem but i have no idea how to fix it.
You need to run lilo again and update the bootloader to get rid of the 99 problem.
The easiest thing to do would be boot from the CD, at the boot prompt enter "bare.i root=/dev/hdXX noinitrd ro" where hdXX is your root partition (varies), and recompile your kernel and compile ReiserFS into the kernel instead of a module. That is, if your root FS is ReiserFS. After compiling and installing the kernel edit /etc/lilo.conf to where there is a bootable configuration for your new kernel and old one (you should be able to figure it out), and save it and run "lilo" in a shell.
That's the easiest way I can think of, I've never done the initrd thing though.
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