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Posted: April 05 2006,12:06 QUOTE
I have a SanDisk SDMX1 512MB Flash mp3 player i would like to use to boot DSL.
I downloaded DSL 2.3 LiveCD and did a Pendrive install from the menu but after rebooting i wasnt able to boot from it on my GA-7VKMP motherboard.
If i copy the cd content to the USB and use Syslinux i get a "Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs" error.
My question is what is the RIGHT way to do it? The most important thing is that i will be able to remove DSL from my mp3 player and it will be back at his initial state.
edit: where can i get the bootusb-x.x.x.img?
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Posted: April 09 2006,21:46 QUOTE
You can get the usbboot image from here.
You can find like everthing on it in here.
The way I did it was I downloaded the usb boot image and used winimage to write the image to my usb flash stick. Then I copied the KNOPPIX, boot, and Lost+Found folders from the disc to the usb's root and it works prefect for me. :blues:
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Posted: April 10 2006,16:21 QUOTE
thank you for your reply kendall14.
when i use winimage to write the bootfloppy-usb.img to the player i get a "SYSLINUX 2.04 (Debian 2003-06-06) Boot failed" message.
btw, i have Windows 2000 and Fedora Core 4 on the computer, so i can try some other methods aswell.
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