Please help. I've been trying to get a CLFS system built and installed for almost a week now. By myself (well, with google, the clfs-support archives, and the LFS hints by my side) I've managed to struggle through creating the entire temporary system. I've been stuck on this VFS error for about two days now, and I'm at my wits end.
I'm installing CLFS SVN 03-24(?)-2007 from the 6.2.5 LiveCD for x86_64-pure64. I've followed the instructions to the letter with two exceptions: I'm using grub 0.97 (32 bit, custom built from LiveCD) as my kernel, and my root partition is ext3. (Reason: 1) LILO refused to load into my bootsector. 2) I can't rermember why I originally wanted to stick with ext3, but now I don't want to wipe all my work AGAIN and start from scratch.) I'm writing this from my WinXP partition, so I don't have my config files handy. I did compile ext2, ext3, vfat, and ntfs support into the kernel. No modules were required for the kernel and initramfs/initrd support are disabled. (I get something about 0 modules built at the end of make.) These are the messages I get before the panic: scsi0: sata-nv ata1: SATA Link disabled //or empty or inactive or something similar scsi1: sata-nv ata2: SATA Link up at 3 Gbps // and a little more I didn't write down ata2.00: dev 0 multi count 16 ata2.00: qc timeout ata2.00: failed to set xfer mode // forgot to write the code, maybe 0x07? ata2.00: limiting speed to UMDA/66 //earlier got a message about speed being UDMA/100 ata2: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs Messages repeat 2 more times before the kernel goes on for awhile before the final panic. I think this might be part of the problem, but then again I have around 8 SATA connectors on my motherboard, so it could also just be a complete device probe. Other notes about my kernel config: I know I have basic SCSI HD support and IDE support. I tried adding IDE SCSI emulation (lspci said something about SCSI being attached to IDE2 and IDE3.) I know WinXP has issues with my SATA drive not being first in the boot sequence, and in my grub config for WinXP boot, I have to swap hd1 to hd0. Maybe I'll try that for CLFS before I go to bed. Also, I've noticed that kernels since 2.6.13 have had some trouble with SATA disks, though I didn't read anyting specific about the 2.6.20.1 kernel SVN is using. Also, if I must, I suppose I could push CLFS from my sda2 partition onto my hdc1 partition, but I'd rather not. Any help would be appreciated. "Lensman" Bob _________________________________________________________________ Exercise your brain! Try Flexicon. http://games.msn.com/en/flexicon/default.htm?icid=flexicon_hmemailtaglinemarch07 _______________________________________________ Clfs-support mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cross-lfs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clfs-support
