NASLite Network Attached Storage

Using NASLite v2 USB w/Kicker Floppy. Floppy boots, starts loading kernel & drivers from USB key, but then I get the message "Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00". This appears after quite a bit of scrolling on the screen from loading drivers, etc etc.

Any ideas? I have a DaneElec 256MB USB Key, tried in both the mobo's USB slot as well as with a PCI USB2.0/FW card I have. Same result.

Thanks!

How much RAM?
Reprogram the USB Flash and try again. May be a decompression error.
Does it fail on other machines?

RAM: 256MB
Tried reprogram the flash, same result. I will try on other machines and report back...

Ok, tried NASLite v2 in another laptop I have that can boot from USB, and it appeared to work. I was able to login and see the main NASLite configuration menu. I added my license key while I was in there and made sure to save the config.

Swapped that key back to my PII machine and it gives the same result, unable to mount root fs on 01:00.

I've disabled all the extraneous stuff in the BIOS (Serial, Parallel, etc). For those keeping score, this machine is an old Dell Precision Workstation 410 w/BIOS A14.

In the BIOS, disable all power management and try it again.

90% sure that it was already disabled, but will verify and let you know.

Also, try different RAM.

I will have to see if I have extra old RAM that I could swap-in.

If you want to see my BIOS setup screens, I put them on a flicker account here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/millieaux/ ... 209105532/

All the extraneous stuff is disabled. Will try different RAM if I get a chance and let you know...

I had this error on an OLD Compaq deskpro. I was lucky enough to have 10 of them i could canabalise but no matter what i did on NASLITE (not the new one) i could not make it work.

Does not help you directly but some extra information never goes wrong.

swapped memory in/out, always with min 128MB. Same result. Any chance that the CDD version could correct this? Is that out yet?

millieaux, is the HD correctly setup? also have you another HD you can test?

If by 'correctly setup' you mean that without the kicker disk in the drive, I boot into Windows XP (which is on the existing HDD), then yes. I don't have another HDD I can try right now. So is that error message from trying to mount the fs from the HDD or the RAM disk? I assumed that it meant there was a problem mounting the memory as some type of RAM drive.

I probably have no clue what I'm talking about here, but that's nothing new.
: )

Sounds like NASLite may not be a solution I can work with. Perhaps I should try v1.x for grins?

http://code.dogmap.org/hardware/

A clue?

millieaux,

Is the Auto detect of the hard drive switced off in the BIOS? I have had problems with this, with the drave having Windows installed. I took the drive to another machine and formatted it, then put it back and it work fine after that. I remember that it complained about mounting a file system, but can't remember the detail.

So, if you don't need the OS/data on the disk, first format it before putting it into the NASLite box.

I've tried it with auto detect on and off. Right now, the drive does have Windows - I can try formatting and will see.