I've tried something different: I formatted my SD card to ext3 and put on it the Salix Live-cd, to run in live with persistent mode. I rebooted a
few times to check everything was ok. I've been able to do a lot of work and was very happy, until Salix showed me a notifier saying there were
updates ...

I used the Salix Live-cd 14.2 to install salix into a SDCARD 32Go with the graphic installer tool. I've selected the grub method and all went fine, no error, then trying to boot it, got the 4 pinguins, and error message:


Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown ...

There are two steps: building an initrd to provide the missing module at boot, and hooking it up with your bootloader.

Here are some instructions about how to make the initrd:
https://docs.slackware.com/howtos:slackware:kernel_huge_for_generic
Make sure you use the right kernel number, which can ...

There are two steps: building an initrd to provide the missing module at boot, and hooking it up with your bootloader.
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Full disclosure: this is just from memory and what I hope are reliable sources, and I haven't tested it. But hopefully it is mostly right and others can add corrections as ...

Understood. Well, I have absolutely no clues on how to build initrd.img ... Can I download one anywhere ? I can have ubuntu or mint installed on usb external drive, how can I use it to build a Salix initrd.img ? Do you have a step by step guide ? Many thanks for your help.

The kernel does not include the necessary modules to boot from an SD card. You'll have to load the modules separately. If you want to do that, you'll have to create an appropriate initrd.img that will include the necessary modules for your hardware and load it in your lilo.conf (or grub ...

Hi everyone,

I'm not sure whether my question belongs to this thread or to the live-cd thread. I used the Salix Live-cd 14.2 to install salix into a SDCARD 32Go with the graphic installer tool. I've selected the grub method and all went fine, no error, then trying to boot it, got the 4 pinguins ...