Linux jocks -- "Kernel panic ..." has me panicked

[Felecha]

I had RedHat 7.0 for school last year, haven't used it in maybe 7 or 8 months. Booted to Linux last night, actually couldn't remember my login/password. Used the dropdown menu on top of the login window to "Reboot", and when I did, it proceeded to stall before even getting to the cascade of [OK]'s:

VFS: Cannot open root device 03:46
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:46

Any help?

Thanks

 

[marat]

Redhat 7.0 is one of the buggiest distroes you can find. If you have problems with it - save yourself some time and install one of the newer distroes.
Note: Even though Redhat 7.1 and 7.2 aren't as bad as 7.0, they aren't good either. Looks like 7.3 will be better, but we will see. In the mean time - try something else.
Candidates are : Suse, Mandrake, Debian (not easy for the beginner) ans Slackware (same thing).

 

[Nothinman]

Frankly I havn't had any problems with RH 7.2 on a server at work, I wouldn't 'run 7.0, but 7.2 is fine.

Do you know what partition the root partition was on before?