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hello,
i am just a newbie. i learn the slitaz from a blog. i am very like it, so i just want to get one and put it on my usb . but after installing the slitaz by the install tool in live cd, i can not boot into the slitaz.
firstly, i get the error: "Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)".so, i found the solutions and try to add the "rootdelay=8" in the "kernel" line. luckly, the error message has disappeared. instead, the other error message showed up: "kernel panic - not syncing: no init found. try passing init= option to kernel." i don't know how to do this time because i can't find the solution throught the google.
help me, please!
(i am just a chinese student, and i am not good at english. so if there are any syntax error which make you misunderstanding me, i feel sorry)
at last, no matter can you help me to slove the problem, i will also thank you very much.
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Hello vin,
How is your usb stick formated (FAT16 or 32, EXT 2 or 3) ?
And when you say "installing the slitaz by the install tool in live cd", what do you mean exactly ?
Did you try to do a full install on your stick or LiveUSB ? What menu of TazPanel did you use ?
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i formatted my usb stick to ext4(i had formated it to ext3 first, but the same situation happened) .
when i boot into live cd, there is a "documention" software in the desktop. at the end of the document, there is a link "slitaz install" which links to the install tool. i can't find the slitaz installer in tazpanel.
i think i had a full installation to my stick not the live cd. this is because i can see the root directory "/" in my stick.
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i formatted my usb stick to ext4(i had formated it to ext3 first, but the same situation happened) .
when i boot into live cd, there is a "documention" software in the desktop. at the end of the document, there is a link "slitaz install" which links to the install tool. i
think i had a "full installation" to my stick not the live cd. this is because i can see the root directory "/" in my stick.
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Are you trying to boot an installation on your pendrive?
Do you have a hard drive in the computer?
If 'yes', then it is most likely the kernel line in your grub config is not correct.
Try using (1,0) & rootdelay=10
Does that help?
(It may be that you have not set the boot sequence to boot from external first in your BIOS.)
if i use the (hd1,0), it will show the error "file not found".
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Post your grub menu.lst
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title ....
root (hd0,0)
kernel /root/vmlinuz-2.6.37-slitaz root=/dev/sdb1 rootdelay=8 quiet
that is it
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Change what's in bold from :
root (hd0,0)
kernel /root/vmlinuz-2.6.37-slitaz root=/dev/sdb1 rootdelay=8 quiet
to
root (hd0,0)
kernel /root/vmlinuz-2.6.37-slitaz root=/dev/sda1 rootdelay=8 quiet
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i had tried, but it didn't work.
the error is：" Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,1)".
what should i do？
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Change what's in bold from :
root (hd0,0)
kernel /root/vmlinuz-2.6.37-slitaz root=/dev/sda1 rootdelay=8 quiet
to
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.37-slitaz root=/dev/sda1 rootdelay=8 quiet
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there is nothing changing.
in fact, this is my spell ing error, sorry!
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my meum.lst:
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.37-slitaz root=/dev/sdb1 rootdelay=8 quiet
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when you start grub, what kind of drives does grub find?
just open a command line in grub wich shows "grub>" and type:
find
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@vin
You still have sdb1 & not sda1.
my meum.lst:
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.37-slitaz root=/dev/sdb1 rootdelay=8 quiet
It's looking on the wrong drive.
root (hd0,0) => First partition, first HDD
kernel /root/vmlinuz-2.6.37-slitaz root=/dev/sdb1 rootdelay=8 quiet => First partition, second HDD
@ vin,
hmm, may be a stupid question but what the size of your stick ?
And follow aniguenni's advice or run SliTaz from the liveCD, insert your USB stick and open a terminal as root, type fdisk -l and post the result.
We must identify all your devices.
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@ fatmac,
although "sdb1" was took placed of "sda1", i can not boot into slitaz.
it displayed an error: "Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,1)".
i had tried several others(like sda1, sdb2, sda2, sdc1, etc.) it also displays this error.
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@ ceel
@ aniguenni
my stick just only 1G. slitaz is very small, i think my stick is enough to be installed slitaz. i had tried to install slitaz to my 8G stick, but the situation also exsitted.
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the result of fdisk -l:
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root@slitaz:/home/tux# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1303 4567 26226081 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 4568 60801 451699264 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 7180 18079 87553652+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 18080 21299 25861120 af Unknown
/dev/sda7 21300 41295 160617812 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/sda8 41296 60801 156681913+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/sdb: 7803 MB, 7803174912 bytes
174 heads, 57 sectors/track, 1536 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 9918 * 512 = 5078016 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 76 1537 7243584 b Win95 FAT32
Disk /dev/sdc: 1001 MB, 1001848320 bytes
31 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1018 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1922 * 512 = 984064 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 2 428 409600 83 Linux
Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(0, 32, 33) logical=(1, 2, 3)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(51, 30, 43) logical=(427, 8, 58)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary
/dev/sdc2 428 1018 567296 83 Linux
Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(51, 30, 44) logical=(427, 8, 59)
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(121, 190, 5) logical=(1017, 18, 50)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary
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and in grub:
grub>find
(hd0,0)
hd(0,1)
hd(1,0)
hd(2,0)
hd(2,4)
hd(2,5)
hd(2,6)
hd(2,7)
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@ vin,
my stick just only 1G. slitaz is very small, i think my stick is enough to be installed slitaz.
Right. You only need 250 MB for a full install.
Result of fdisk -l
You've got
[*]a HD 500 GB; it'll always be sda
[*]your 8 GB stick (I suppose) as sdb
[*]your 1 GB stick as sdc
fdisk and Grub see 2 partitions on the 1 GB stick. Did you do one for your /home? Did you remember on which one did you install SliTaz?
In your menu.lst, try
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.37-slitaz root=/dev/sdb2 rootdelay=8 quiet
Boot with only the 1 GB stick connected.
May be it should be better to format your key again and re-install SliTaz:
[*]Boot from LiveCD (with no stick inserted). Can you confirm you use SliTaz4.0 ?
[*]open TazPanel (one of the icon in the upper left corner) and click on the Installation tab; choose Installation
[*]Use GParted to suppress the 2 existing partitions; do only one and format it ext3
[*]check the LiveCD is in the CD reader and then install SliTaz; hoock Install Grub but don't hoock Dual boot
[*]after installion is completed, don't forget to check/modify the /boot/grub/menu.lst nn the stick as this:
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.37-slitaz root=/dev/sdb1 rootdelay=8 quiet
I hope I didn't do any mistake; I'm at my office without SliTaz running...
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@ ceel,
thanks,thank you very much.
i had spend several days trying to fix this problem.
at the beginning, i just want have anothef partition to save my profile. but unexpected, it played a joke with me.
but there is a thing still don't kown. i used to booting the winpe usb tool without setting up which drive to boot.
can we do that?
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Hello vin,
I'm really sorry but I never used WinPE. I can't answer to your question.
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@ceel
it doesn't matter. but also thanks a lot.
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