<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <pre>I am trying to turn my new Dell Inspiron 6000 into a dual boot machine. I used Partition Magic 8.0 to move the NTFS windows partition boundary to give me room for Linux. I installed K12LTSP 4.1.0. The installation went okay but on the restart I get the following error message:</pre> <pre><o:p> </o:p></pre> <pre>Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)<o:p></o:p></pre> <pre><o:p> </o:p></pre> <pre>I thought the problem might be version related and downloaded K12LTSP 4.2. The 4.2 is okay because I used it to update two other computers first. When I attempted to do a clean install on the Inspiron I got a popup window in the automatic partition part of the installation:</pre> <pre><o:p> </o:p></pre> <pre>Could not allocate requested partitions:<o:p></o:p></pre> <pre>Unsatisfied partition request<o:p></o:p></pre> <pre>New Part Request -- mountpoint: None uniqueID:9<o:p></o:p></pre> <pre>type physical volume (LVM) format: 1 badblocks: None<o:p></o:p></pre> <pre>device: None drive ['sda'] primary: None<o:p></o:p></pre> <pre>size: 0 grow: 1 maxsize: None<o:p></o:p></pre> <pre>start None end: None migrate: None origfstype: None<o:p></o:p></pre> <pre><o:p> </o:p></pre> <pre>Grub appears to work okay because I can boot to Windows with no problem. What do I need to do to fix this problem? Thanks ahead of time Pat </pre> </body> </html>