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• Started 12 years ago by etopsirhc
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   etopsirhc
   

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   ok heres the thing , i have installed slitaz on the second partition of my usb drive , but when i go to boot it gives me an error , but after figuring out that i got another road block. but now i got another problem , but i cant

   heres my menu.lst , in the /mnt/target/boot/grub/ directory of the usb dive

   title SliTaz GNU/Linux (cooking) (Kernel vmlinuz-2.6.30.6-slitaz)
   root (hd0,1)
   kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30.6-slitaz root=/dev/sda2 vga=normal rootdelay=10

   the file was copied from where the instillation thing said the file was , and i added the rootdelay like i was supposed to , but what do i still need to fix

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   ok , heres some more info
   this is at the end of the screen when it hits

   VFS: cannot open root device "sda2" or unknown-block(0,0)
   please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
   0300 (numbers) hda driver: ide-gd
   0301 (numbers) hda1
   0302 (numbers) hda2
   0305 (numbers) hda5
   0340 (numbers) hdb driver: ide-cdrom
   kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount fs on unknown-block(0,0)
   pid:1,comm:swapper not tainted 2.6.30.6-slitaz #2
   call trace:
   [<hex>] ? print + 0xf/0x11
   [<hex>] panic + 0x39/0xd6
   [<hex>] mount_block_root + 0x1eb/0x1ff
   [<hex>] ? sys_mknod + 0x13/0x15
   [<hex>] mount_root + 0x8e/0x96
   [<hex>] prepare_namespace + 0x140/0x167
   [<hex>] kernel_init + 0x148/0x157
   [<hex>] ? kernel_init + 0x0/0x157
   [<hex>] kernel_thread_helper + 0x7/0x10

   Posted 12 years ago #

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