SORRY, I made a mistake, I mean... Booting the USB installer gives me a 'kernel panic - vfs unable to mount root fs'
After struggling almost an hour, i got it working. I found that the content of the syslinux.cfg is the culprit since I can boot without the syslinux.cfg file and manually provide the boot parameter at boottime On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 1:19 PM, billwill onggo <billwill.on...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was trying to create a bootable USB flash disk following this guide : > 4.3.3.2. Preparing Files For USB Memory Stick Booting > the flexible way > > adding installer image > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03. > html.en#usb-copy-flexible > <https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.html.en> > > Booting the USB installer gives me a 'kernel panic - vfs unable to mount > root fs' booting the USB installer > > This is strange, because several months ago i did successfully create a > debian installer, using the same cd-image, following this same guide, and > installed this Debian (i'm currently using to write this mail) into this > machine. > > After struggling almost an hour, i got it working. I found that the > content of the syslinux.cfg is the culprit since I cant boot without the > syslinux.cfg file and manually provide the boot parameter at boottime > > boot: vmlinuz initrd=initrd.gz > > > I learned that this machine i was using to create the USB installer is on > debian jessie having *syslinux version 6.03*. > > Then this is what I got from the syslinux site: > http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=Directives/append > > Take the following simple configuration: >> >> DEFAULT mykernel >> APPEND root=/dev/sda2 >> >> Note that the APPEND line here is a *global* directive, as it is not >> part of any LABEL entry. >> >> For Syslinux 4.xx and older, the above simple configuration works as (it >> used to be) expected. >> >> *Since version 5.00,* the result for the above sample configuration is >> that the *root=/dev/sda2* argument is not parsed, which will lead to >> unexpected results, most probably with some kind of failure to boot the OS. >> In other words, the *global* APPEND is ignored by the DEFAULT directive. >> >> For the above example, the configuration could be re-written as: >> >> DEFAULT mykernel root=/dev/sda2 >> >> or even better as: >> >> DEFAULT mylabel >> LABEL mylabel >> KERNEL mykernel >> APPEND root=/dev/sda2 >> >> which "moves" the *global* APPEND line into the new LABEL entry. >> >> Generally speaking, it is recommended to have at least one LABEL entry. >> > Well, i struggled almost an hour reformating the USB, and copying several > times :( for this simple fix.. this means i'm still a newbie. > But from my point of view, i think... the installation guide might need a > bit changes. Am I right? > > This is content of the syslinux.cfg the from installation guide : > >> default vmlinuz >> append initrd=initrd.gz >> >> Shouldn't it be something like this? > >> default debi >> >> label debi >> kernel vmlinuz >> append initrd=initrd.gz >> >> >
