Cannot boot to Gnome

[jasonshah at gmail.com (Jason Shah)]

Hi all,

I am new to this (and relatively new to Linux) so please forgive me if
this is a dumb question.

I am trying to build a customized Debian Live for myself.  I did these
commands, per the Examples Wiki page:

lh_config
lh_config -p gnome-desktop && lh_build

I then run the binary.iso in VirtualBox with no hard disk, 256MB
memory, 8MB video memory, no floppy, no HDD, and CD-ROM mounted to
binary.iso.

Boot screen appears fine.  I hit enter to boot.
After about 15 seconds, the BusyBox shell appears.

Immediately before that I see the errors below.

Does anyone have suggestions on how to address this?  Thank you in advance.
J

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pcnet32: PCnet/FAST III 79C973 at 0xc020, 09 00 22 02 f8 66 assigned IRQ 11
pcnet32: Found PHY 0022:561b at address 0
eth0: registered as PCnet/FAST III 79C973
pcnet32: 1 cards_found
hdc: ATAPI 32X DVD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, (U)DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
Done.
Begin: Mounting root file system... ...
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
aufs 20071105
loop: module loaded
squashfs: version 3.2-r2 (2007/01/15) Phillip Lougher


BusyBox v1.1.3 (Debian 1:1.1.3-5) Built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
(initramfs)
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