Installing Linux on a Firewire drive.

[Bill Mueller]

> "Cannot open root device "sda11" or unknown-block(0.0). Please append a
>       correct "root=" boot option.
>      Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on
>    unknown-block(0.0)"

Most likely the firewire drive is not mounting correctly.

There is a YDL firewire/ipod install iso on YDL.net that uses the same
graphical installer as YDL 4.0.1 and takes care of all the kernel and
mounting issues.  Might give that a try.

I've been running YDL off my iPod for a couple months now, and it still
plays music.

-Bill

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