ioffer Posted February 15, 2005 Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 I'm currently making the move from win2k to mandrake. My cd-rom drive went crazy and I have a usb cd drive connected at the moment (in lieu of any ide stuff i wish i had laying around right now). My CD Drive is not bootable as it is USB -- Only floppy USB drives are cool by my bios. I have created the boot disk and when booting it goes through the identification of most of the hardware, but around the first partition check i hit an error that says "unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(1,3)" I'd gladly partition everything now and format into ext2 and make a blind leap, but shouldn't the cds take me through all that? I seem to remember the redhat installation doing so years ago. What difference does the HD make when booting from the boot disk? Isn't it just a mini-linux? And when I pass this point am I going to have huge problems with the usb drive? it's a TDK 40/12/48x Thanks, Jeremy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ioffer Posted February 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 I should clarify. Here is the exact boot sequence that gets funky: BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-jun-25, 1 Devices found init init/main.c: 726 Kernel Panic: VFS : ---- And then the unable to mount error. I'm going to simply start playing w/ the bios, but any ideas would be helpful. Thanks again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ioffer Posted February 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 I got everything to work -- ditched the USB drive by installing off of a HD partition. For anyone who may have gotten the BIOS EDD kernel panick, disable anything with power management in the bios. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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