USB booting so near yet so far!

Forum: USB booting
Topic: USB booting so near yet so far!
started by: drmjunior

Posted by drmjunior on Sep. 10 2006,22:48

Hello,

I have trawled the forums but no joy.

I can get my laptop to boot USB OK and it gets to the point where it wants to read the DSL image and then goes into a kernel panic!

Lots of garbage but following lines might give someone in the know a clue:
Accessing DSL Linux at /dev/sda1....cat: No file /KNOPPIX/etc.ld.so.cache
FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:03

I love the idea of DSl and taking my PC everywhere on USB but now very frustrated trying to get it to go! :angry:

Please help!!

drmjunior
Generalisations are always false :laugh:

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Sep. 11 2006,01:59

Sounds like your filesystem is messed up... maybe a reformat/reinstall/repartition/etc is needed?

Posted by drmjunior on Sep. 11 2006,22:28

Mmmm... tried that.

Reformat USB stick.
Wininage to put the boot flopyusb.img on it
The daemon tools to copy 3.0.1 iso
Boot and select options failsafe dsl acpi=off
Same result!

Any clues

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Sep. 12 2006,13:22

I don't think the winimage way is endorsed...
< http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki....rive.3F >

Posted by drmjunior on Sep. 12 2006,20:17

I was just trying to help myself first by following the How To posted by Kronus in this forum.....?!

Having read through that thread it seems other people have had exactly same error but no-one has replied with a solution!!!

I tried creating USB HDD from within DSL when booted from CD-ROM created from ISO but PC just says that device is not bootable when I do that :angry:

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Sep. 12 2006,20:31

You may have to fiddle around with your usb bios settings...

You should also try USB-ZIP, some computers only support one or the other afaik.