Kernel Panic Booting HD Installation of VL 7.0
 

Hi,

I have been trying out various Linux distros on my MSI laptop by installing them to dedicated logical partitions, having booted the ISO images stored on a USB stick using the very excellent WinSetupFromUSB. I had no problem booting Vector Linux 7.0 and installing it to /dev/sda13, but when I tried to boot it (using GRUB) there was a major problem:

I would have posted at the VL website but I'm having problems registering there. Can anyone help?

Cheers,

3g

The kernel was found, and booted. The root drive was not found.

Fix the root=/dev/sd?? bit on the end of the kernel boot parameter

Sorted
 

Thanks business_kid, that's sorted it. For some reason, LILO isn't a happy bunny on my laptop so I'm using GRUB4DOS 0.4.4 from Puppy Slacko 5.7.0 as my boot manager. This set up the correct entry for other distros (including Slackware 14.1) in menu.lst, but for VL 7.0 it had:

So I appended:

to that line. What I don't really understand is how GRUB was able to set up the correct entry for Slackware 14.1 (and 8 other distros) in menu.lst but not VL - is this a bug in GRUB or has VL been compiled in some way that means GRUB doesn't recognise it properly?

Grub has these funny 'guess what's there' scripts. They are an unmitigated disaster any time I try.
Glad you're sorted. Mark the thread solved.

business_kid: Sorry, would have sent you a private message but I don't seem to be able to do so. Could you tell me, are you registered on the forums at vectorlinux.com?

No. Haven't tried vector linux

OK, no problem. One other question: do you happen to know of a fairly authoritative forum for WINE?