Yes, using a disk that had it's OS installed while in another system (other
than the one it's going into now) will cause that. You'll need to wipe it
and re-install with the drive in your system.

"twoster" wrote in message
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> I am new to Linux/Lindows/Linspire, and I've recently purchased the
> Seagate 7200 Barracuda HD with Lindows pre-installed.
> My system (that I'm trying to up-grade, btw):
> Tekram P6B40-A4X Motherboard, Pentium II - 350mhz
> Award Bios and Intel 440BX chipset
> 160MB of RAM.
> Promise Ultra100 ATA/100 IDE controller/adapter board w/80 cond. 40
> pin cable.
> On boot-up, the Lindows screen hangs. I chose the "Diagnostics"
> option, and after a few seconds of "diagnosing" it stops with the
> message: "Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:03". Just
> before that, the Partition message displays
> "dev/ide/host2/bus1/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3" for what it's worth. I'm
> really stuck at this point - can anyone please give me a clue!?