Booting LM from the DVD disc iso image I made from the Linux Mint website in my WinXp system I got "Boot in 6 secs" then the LM logo and then a whitish blank screen but with, at the top, the message,
1.640258]Kernal 1 panic-not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block (2.0)
(From the later message that "]" in1.640258] is probably a 1 -my eyes playing up)
The lights on Caps Lock and Scroll Lock were both flashing.
Going to UNetbootin I used their site to download Mint 15 to my FAT 32 USB drive. This was apparently successful.
Booting from this I got a similar outcome as above with the slightly different message :-
1.6722341 Kernal panic-not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block (2.0)
The lights on Caps Lock and Scroll Lock were both flashing.
Any explanations and advice please.