On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Jerry Geis wrote:
I am soo close. I have have made my custom kernel from a DIFFERENT machine, I have hte USB booting, I have 3 partitions, 1-fat12, 2 - ext3, 3 is swap. on booting it says:
VFS cannot open root device NULL please append root=
I tried root=/dev/sda2 and still nothing.
Does your custom kernel (or its initrd) include the USB storage drivers necessary for reading your thumb drive?