I used the latest Salix 15 LiveCD (very nice by the way) to install Salix onto a USB drive, and the installation went fine, but when I actually boot from the USB drive I get the following kernel panic:
VFS: Cannot open root device "sda2" or unknown-block(0,0): error -6
Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
[a list of a bunch of RAM devices, but no actual disks]
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
The last time this happened to me was with a different distro, and the fix was to chroot into the broken install, edit FSTAB to use UUIDs instead of device paths, and run update-grub to propagate the changes into the bootloader. However, that hasn't worked here. The kernel is version 5.15, so it should be capable of booting from a USB drive. Do I need to do something special to make Salix bootable from a USB drive?
Kernel panic when booting from USB drive
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fyrstormer
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Re: Kernel panic when booting from USB drive
...to clarify, when I say I installed Salix onto a USB drive, I really mean I installed it, I didn't use the "copy LiveCD to USB stick" option.