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1knight
February 5th, 2008, 10:53 PM
Here are my Specs.

M2N32-SLI Deluxe Motherboard
2 GB Ram DDR 800
Athlon X2 3800+
Geforce 7950 GX 2 (Two Video Connections are use 24" Vision Quest Monitor and my 50" Hitachi)

1 SATA 500 GB(Main Drive Windows XP MCE)
1 IDE 300 GB( using IDE TO SATA Converter )(Media Drive)
1 40 GB IDE(Linux Drive Ready for OS )
1 DVD Burner IDE


I am trying to use the Linux MCE DVD v7.10 to install to the 40 GB Drive.
The DVD Boots Gets to the 1st menu (with these Options Install do a Memory Check or Boot from the Hard Disk)
I tell it I want to install the software

It then Boots into Splash Screen
then on to the loading the OS Screen
that's where in Hangs

I have Already Tried to use acpi=off Command

it Don't work I get the Errors Below

As Best as I could Write it down

117.280415 VFS :cannot Open Root Device "null" or Unknown Block(8,1)
117.280460 Please Append Correct "root" Option (here are Partitions Available) (no info Given)
117.280515 Kernel Panic-not syncing :vfs:Unable to Mount Root FS on Unknown-Block(8,1)

Hangs.

I am new to Linux HELP PLEASE !!!

Kilz
February 5th, 2008, 11:09 PM
While Linux MCE uses Kubuntu as a base. It is not a Ubuntu project. You may want to go to their site (http://www.linuxmce.org/) and use the forums there for support.

1knight
February 5th, 2008, 11:12 PM
I have but so far it's been no help

K.Mandla
February 6th, 2008, 01:53 AM
Moved to Other OS Talk.