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[0]On a purely IDE system I get "panic: cannot mount root" :-(

I used to run into this message on 1.1.5.1 systems all the time and once
in a while on 2.0.5.

Turned out that it was caused by the root filesystem being dirty in
some slight way and the root mount/fsck can't cope for some reason.

Simply boot -s or boot from a floppy, fsck, reboot and the drive would always 
reappear.

It may not be the same problem you are seeing, but give it a try.

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