[ale] Boot issues - OR - why Mafia$oft hurts/disappoints everyone endlessly

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 23:20 -0500, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Now that I have been flamed and called pretty much stupid  the latest
> is :
> I downloaded MYTHUBUNTU and MYTHDORA.

AFA flaming and calling names, just take Aaron with a very large grain
of salt.  He gets on his soap box and does his thing.  Most of the time
it's amusing.  It's certainly well known that I can be worse at times.

> Tried MYTHDORA, got same unknown root fs blah blah/
> 
> Changed the HD's now /dev/sda = Linux /dev/sdb = Windoze
> 
> Tried MYTHUBUNTU.  It got installed.  Restarted the server
> 
> Got the GRUB menu, chose the entry for Ubuntu regular and Ubuntu
> single user
> mode.
> 
> Both cases getting syncing VFS unable to mount root fs unknown block
> (0,0)
> 
> Not sure what I am doing wrong or how I can fix.
> 
> I am willing to forego my Windoze install, as long as I can mount and
> use
> the data on the Windows drive later.
> 
> Anyone in the Marietta, Alpharetta area that I can meetup to show
> issues ?

Sigh...  Wrong side of the city for me.  I'm over in the Norcross
Lilburn area.

> Any installfest that I can bring PC to for help ?

Now THAT's something Aaron might be able to address.  I wouldn't know.

> -Narahari
> 
Regards,
Mike
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