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I922sParkCir

01-21-2006, 04:43 PM

I installed Knoppix 4.02 on and very old Gateway Solo 2500 Laptop. It has a 6 gb hdd, and 64mb of ram, but knoppix ran just fine. During the installation it took about 2 hours to get fo 0% to 77% and 15 hours to get from 77% to 100%. Now after GRUB loads I get this message

"Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root sf on unknown-block(3,1)"

Any help would be great. Thank you.

parj

01-27-2006, 04:37 PM

check your HD or ram something could be intermittent there which make it hard to trace

UnderScore

01-27-2006, 05:02 PM

check your HD or ram something could be intermittent there which make it hard to trace Its not the RAM or the HD. Its the knoppix installed to a HD process which seems to have a 60 percent success rate. Search the forums & see other people who have installed it and gotten the same error message. As for fixing it, I do not know and I have given up helping people fix a known broken process (http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/HD_Install_Warning_not_to_do_it).