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Posted: Sep. 10 2006,22:48 QUOTE

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!!  :O

drmjunior
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Posted: Sep. 11 2006,01:59 QUOTE

Sounds like your filesystem is messed up... maybe a reformat/reinstall/repartition/etc is needed?
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Posted: Sep. 11 2006,22:28 QUOTE

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 ???
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Posted: Sep. 12 2006,13:22 QUOTE

I don't think the winimage way is endorsed...
http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki....rive.3F
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Posted: Sep. 12 2006,20:17 QUOTE

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:
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