Hello, my name is Shoutist. I have recently purchased an SSD drive, 128gb for my desktop computer. ATI Radeon 4850 graphics card, ASUS motherboard, intel i-5 processor. I tried installing Windows 7 on it, but I keep getting "Windows cannot install required files....Error code: 0x80070570". Because of this, and multiple failed attempts at fixing it, I have decided to install Ubuntu. I created a PENDRIVE out of my 4gb flash drive, and put Ubuntu 12.10 onto it. I kept getting a "
Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,1)" error. I made this drive using Universal USB Installer. I then tried using Ubuntu 11.04 and re-formatted the flash drive. I used Unetbootin to put ubuntu 11.04 onto the drive. I get to a menu screen with a few options, but after selecting "install ubuntu" the same error message "kernel panic" arises. My question is, why does this keep happeneing, and how do I fix it? I have done a lot of research on the web but none of it makes much sense. Many people say open the grub or grub2 command line and do such and such commands, but I can't do that if I don't have an os installed...
Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,1)" error. I made this drive using Universal USB Installer. I then tried using Ubuntu 11.04 and re-formatted the flash drive. I used Unetbootin to put ubuntu 11.04 onto the drive. I get to a menu screen with a few options, but after selecting "install ubuntu" the same error message "kernel panic" arises. My question is, why does this keep happeneing, and how do I fix it? I have done a lot of research on the web but none of it makes much sense. Many people say open the grub or grub2 command line and do such and such commands, but I can't do that if I don't have an os installed...