Cannot migrate ancient VM - linux

My Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.3 system shows the error MOUNT: ERROR 6 MOUNTING EXT3 and the system gets kernel panic.

Kernel panic while booting the system after kernel update on RHEL-4. Raw. Uncompressing Linux..ok booting the kernel Redhat nash version 4.2.

Re: EXT3-Error when mounting. What happens if you explicitly try to mount it as ext3? It seems like HAL is convinced it's an ext4 filesystem ...

This is because you need a initrd directory on your root filesystem. Booted with the livecd, mounted my root partition and created the /initrd ...

Mapping the disks as IDE gives different errors (but still doesn't boot): Mounting root filesystem mount: error 6 mounting ext3 pivotroot: pivot ...

Kernel Panic Issue. When the GRUB boot menu appears and one kind of kernel is selected to start up, the kernel gets panic : MOUNT: ERROR 6 ...

My best guess of what happened is that perhaps the live OS changed my system clock, which then messed up my main/root ext3 fs (because ..

error 6 mounting ext3 could be caused by incompatible controller disk, but i suppose you haven't change anything when the problem happens.

I have been able to glean that error 6 means the device does not exist. Note that the drive is a SATA drive, but Mandrake lists it as hdc (and ...

If you ran an fsck on a mounted partition, you wiped it. Format, re-install and restore from backup.