gra hoom said : > Hello > > I bought the puredyne USB - mainly because I wanted to support the project. > > On receiving the USB and trying it out the log in freezes - I get past the > menu > (with the logo and option to boot) but It stops. > > There is listed on the screen > > No filesystem could mount root, tried: ext3 ext2 ext4 fuseblk > Kernal Panic - not syncing: VFS : Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block > (104,1) > > > then a load of other stuff (I don't want to type out) > > Any tips on how I can solve this ? I've tried it on three different machines > to see if it was an issue with the machines - but it happens on all of them. >
hm, this is something I've come to see a couple of times before. do
you have a linux distro installed somewhere on a machine that you
could pop the stick into and check the partitions? it would be great
to see if
1) the partition table is OK ("msdos" disk label)
2) the partitions are clean (i.e. run fsck on them)
after fsck'ing the partitions, and possibly fixing the problems with
fsck -a /dev/sdX2 try to reboot the stick.
usually, when this happened to me, I had to re-format the drive before
I could get it to boot. for that you will probably need a copy of the
puredyne DVD image and the ./make-live-device.sh script from
http://launchpad.net/bouilloncube as well as gparted. the steps I'd do
are these:
sudo gparted
erase all partitions from the stick, then create a new 'msdos' disk
label.
cd /path/to/bouilloncube/sh/
sudo ./make-live-device.sh path/to/.iso /dev/yourdevice
if all goes well your stick should be done after a short while. before
unplugging it make sure none of the partitions are mounted though, so
type:
mount
if the device is listed there still do
sudo umount /dev/yourdevice
hope this helps...
karsten
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