Gowator Posted March 12, 2005 Report Share Posted March 12, 2005 I have tried suse9.2, Ubuntu and kanotix all on a shuttle with an external HDD. Its USB2 and the bios settings are boot from external USB HDD second..no IDE disks are installed grub was just dying on Suse and Ubuntu with a kernel panick so eventually I tried kanotix which doies a debian install. It failed in grub and I tried lilo... wghich tells me Kernel panic not synching VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block (8,3) Any ideas or help or sympathy welcome!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted March 13, 2005 Report Share Posted March 13, 2005 I have some old posts on this board which discuss this problem in depth if you want to take a look. However, here's the definitive treatment of the subject from IBM: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linu...lnxw02aFireBoot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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