Okay, using a VirtualBox VM, I obtained the following error message before
the VFS one:
No filesystem could mount root, tries ext3 ext2 ext4 vfat
On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 at 7:59 PM, Kabelo Moiloa <moiloakabelo@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Could you elaborate, do you want me to write down the call trace? The last
> things to be displayed for me are the call trace, some quartets of
> hexadecimal numbers, and the hardware name.
> On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 at 4:04 PM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Kabelo Moiloa <moiloakabelo@gmail.com> skribis:
>>
>> > I copied the installation image onto my USB flash drive. When I tried to
>> > boot it, I got the following kernel panic.:
>> > kernel panic-not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown block
>> > (0,1).
>>
>> Could you report the error messages that show up before that one?
>>
>> It seems that the initialization code failed to locate the device that
>> contains the installation image.
>>
>> TIA,
>> Ludo’.
>>
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