<!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. It came with Windows XP Pro installed. 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 screen text lines:<o:p></o:p> Uncompressing Linux... OK, booting the kernel. audit(1110305405.379:0): initialized ide0: I/O resource 0x1F0-0x1F7 not free. ide0: ports already in use, skipping probe Red Hat nash version 3.5.22 starting Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) This does not appear to be a Grub problem but rather something else. What do I need to do to fix this? Please be detailed as I am still in the dangerous stage of learning (just enough knowledge to wreck a computer). Thanks Pat </pre> </body> </html>