Floppy...
Forum: USB booting
Topic: Floppy...
started by: GatorV
Posted by GatorV on Nov. 19 2004,06:36
Hi all, when I try to boot my DSL via USB, with a Floppy Disk, (the USB Pen Drive isn't recognized) I get to the step with the little Penguin on the top, and a message that says.. Kernel Panic unable to mount VFS on 10:83..What can I do?
Also if I boot DSL via CD, I can't get it to read my USB via /dev/sda, it says block device isn't available..
Please someone help me...
Posted by ico2 on Nov. 25 2004,17:08
sounds nasty, sorry but i cannot help 
welcome to the forum btw
Posted by ohgr on Dec. 07 2004,05:23
| Quote (GatorV @ Nov. 19 2004,01:36) |
| Hi all, when I try to boot my DSL via USB, with a Floppy Disk, (the USB Pen Drive isn't recognized) I get to the step with the little Penguin on the top, and a message that says.. Kernel Panic unable to mount VFS on 10:83.. What can I do? Also if I boot DSL via CD, I can't get it to read my USB via /dev/sda, it says block device isn't available.. Please someone help me... |
I had that problem in the beginning too. What you have to do is make sure in your BIOS that USB Keyboard Support is *Enabled*.
That seemed to fix it, and I was able to boot up from the USB Pen Drive with no problem.
Hope that helps
Posted by ke4nt1 on Dec. 07 2004,05:43
Also, try turning off things in your bios like ACPI or APM.These can cause the "oops at 0000" messages,
resulting in kernel panic..
73
ke4nt