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I just installed B&W64 on an external usb hard drive and everything seems to have went fine until I boot.
I currently have Debian & Mandriva on my internal drive and use Debian's grub bootloader. After adding B&W to grub, it starts booting but then comes up with a kernel panic error. Something about not syncing, I forget the exact error message.
This is the entry I added to debian's grub list.
Quote:
# This entry added BlueWhite64 Linux
# on /dev/sdb5
title BlueWhite64 Linux
root (hd1,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdb5 ro single
Does anybody see anything wrong with it, or have any suggestions?
Try to run grub-install from Debian and see if shows some errors. If all is OK then should boot.
What USB device is that external drive? What FS have you used to install BW64?
The device is a 160gb hitachi hard drive inside an external enclosure I built myself, with BW64 installed on a 50gb partition. It's formatted as ext3. I used the BW64 dvd to install it.
I'll give it a try reinstalling Debian's grub-install.
Thnx.
Last edited by FredGSanford; 08-24-2008 at 11:27 AM.
I reinstalled BW64 on my system and now can boot, but only drops to cli. I only had the first cd and assume I need at least the second cd to get KDE installed or can I install it from cli? Does it come with a package manager, if so which one?
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