I just got a Dell 300m and am trying to get damn small linux to run off of my pen drive (256MB). I have the pen drive booting and able to start linux but shortly after it does a "Kernel pannic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:01." What is this error and how am i going to fix it? Im very new to linux and editing the kernel is quite imatating for me but will do anything to have this. I was fallowing this website http://rz-obrian.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/knoppix-usb/ for the instructions and am using exactly what he has at the very bottom of the site.

If i boot off of the regular Knoppix cd via the "dell media bay" or docking station then i get this error

Can't find KNOPPIX filesystem, sorry.
Dropping you to a (very limited) shell.
Press reset button to quit

then i get a shell with 6 commands (cat, mount, umount, insmod, rmmod and lsmod)

Any help?