Saxon Landers wrote:
> ""
> I'm making a *swag* on this. I'll bet your 'sdb' is called 'sdb1' or has
> a uuid given to it by the Ubuntu kernel. 

I'm not very sure I can help, but the uuid is created by mkfs, when the 
partition is formatted under whatever distro you are using.

> List of all partitions:
> 0800 321571224 sda driver: sd
> 0801 1228800 sda1
> 0802 211340376 sda2
> 0b00 1048575 sr0 driver: sr
> No filesystem could mount root, tried: ext3 vfat msdos iso9660
> Kernal Panic - not syncing VFS: unable to mount root fs on 
> unknown-block(8,0)

I don't see what you used in grub to start the kernel, but it is 
obviously finding the kernel.  There are two potential problems.  Either 
you don't have the ext2/3 filesystem built into the kernel or the root= 
parameter on the kernel line does not specify what it needs.

You should have in the kernel config

CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y

That is probably OK because the kernel tried it.  (Note the only 
difference between ext2 and ext3 is the journal, so ext3 is a superset 
of ext2.)

Looking at the above, I'd say that you should specify root=/dev/sda1 or 
root=/dev/sda2.

You may also have a kernel config problem with not configuring with the 
proper usb devices -- don't set anything to modules.  I'd also check a 
working disto's logs to see what USB parameters are being initialized 
and make sure those are set in the kernel config.

   -- Bruce
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