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Well its been quite a while and I have had someone on another forum try to help and he did a ton to try to help me get it working. As it sits now I have a fresh install of BT2 on my drive. Here is my drive setup.
Here is the error I get when I try to boot to the drive which is an external drive btw.
VS: Cannot open root device "813" or unknown-block (8,19)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (8,19)
Any thoughts?
Since your trying to boot an external usb drive, I wonder if you need to go into the bios settings of the motherboard and tell it to boot from usb, the same as you would tell it to boot from a floppy or cdrom device.
I know some motherboards have different options to boot from different devices, network, usb, floppy, optical drives (cdrom/dvd)) etc....
i'm telling u to recmpile the kernel
while make menuconfig
Built-in these option (yes,not modules)
Device Driver->ATA/ATAPI/MFM-> Generic PCI IDE chipset , PCI IDE Chipset support , generic/default IDE Chipset Support
So now since I am still new to linux, would it be safe for me to recompile the kernel to add more drivers and such if I had choose to do so and have it not cause any problems? I ask because I have a USB wireless device that I would like support for and also would just like to have as much support as possible for devices in case I add something in the future.
Incase I can re-edit the kernel, is it safe or ok for me to do it being booted into linux or should I do it off the cd?
So now since I am still new to linux, would it be safe for me to recompile the kernel to add more drivers and such if I had choose to do so and have it not cause any problems? I ask because I have a USB wireless device that I would like support for and also would just like to have as much support as possible for devices in case I add something in the future.
nope, i'm working on that thing too.
after solved the kernel panic prob,i've recompiled that kernal for dozen of times (for modifying driver & modules) no problem until now
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Incase I can re-edit the kernel, is it safe or ok for me to do it being booted into linux or should I do it off the cd?
its safe now , boot it as usual and do what ever u want
Are you by chance having problems with your wireless? For some reason my built in Broadcom 4311 is shown if I run ifconfig and iwconfig but if I run the Wireless Assistant program to connect to a network it says there arnt any and I know there is. I have 2 of them directly outside my office about 20 or so feet away and are ALWAYS on. Any Ideas how to correct this? It worked fine before off the CD.
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