Searched the forum and found maybe two cases where this happened but didn't see any suggestions on what to do - here's my situation - I did the 1.0.6 hd install opt1 with the setup wizard, and manually three times as I understand it you only need the 3 files off cd (vmlinuz, user_cram.fs, image.gz) and then the pupfile. All of these are residing right in the root of the partition - ie. no directories on it. Tried this twice on 1gig fat32 hda5 .. tried on 1gig fat32 hda3 partition too.. in all cases kernel panic error on bootup. Dunno what to do - suggestions?
PII, 160mB ram, grub MBR install from 1.0.6, no swapfile, puppy boots into ram fine with this cd, and I'm writing this from a successful hd install opt2 on ext2 hda2 so I know the cd's fine. Maybe it's my grub setup?
heres the grub info I tried:
title Puppy Linux 1.0.6 Hard Drive Install 1 on vfat (on /dev/hda5)
root (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 initrd=/image.gz PFILE=pup2-none-524288
heres some bootup info with error at the end:
initializing ctrytographic api
net4:linux tcp/ip 1.0 for net4.0
ip protocols;icmp,udp,tcp,igmp
ip:routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets,8kbytes
tcp:hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768)
net4:unix domain sockets 1.0/smp for linux net4.0
fat:bogus logical sector size 0
umsdos: msdos_read_super failed, mount aborted.
fat:bogus logical sector size 0
fat:bogus logical sector size 0
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00
hard drive install kernel panic -bogus logical sector size 0
hard drive install kernel panic -bogus logical sector size 0
You got it GuestToo! Thanks! Man, I'm a brute force troubleshooter but I woulda never thought of that... simplicity in solutions.. Mark