Xandros 4.1 OS, AMD64 SATA disks. menu.lst - reads; " # By default boot the first menu entry. default 0
# Allow 30 seconds before booting the default. timeout 30 # Use prettier colors. color green/black light-green/black # The first entry is for LFS. title LFS 6.3 root (hd0,6) kernel /boot/lfskernel-2.6.22.5 root=/dev/sda7 " The LFS system is located in /mnt/lfs which is situated on/dev/sda7. The following text is displayed when loading comes to a halt. "....... Root - NFS: No NFS server available , giving up. VFS: unable to mount root fs via NFS trying floppy VFS: insert root floppy and press enter ...." Floppy, prepared as in section 8.4, was inserted, pressed return. The following text was displayed; " List of all partitions: 0200 1440 fd0 (driver?) 0300 4194302 hda driver: ide-cdrom 0340 4194302 hdb driver: ide-cdrom No filesystem could mount root, tried: reiserfs ext3 ext2 msdos vfat iso9660 Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(2,0)." I have found it impossible to elicit the significance of the text in either of these messages. Starting the machine with the root floppy made in section 8.4 provides the following data; " root (hd0,6) Filesystem type is ex2fs, partition type 0x83 setup (hd0) Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists ... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists ... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists ... yes Running "embed /boot/grube2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)" ... 15 sectors are embedded. suceeded Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+15 p (hd0,6)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst" ... succeded Done. " I am at a loss. The grub boot loader says the system is unworkable but the response from the floppy triggering an unloaded machine says that there is nothing wrong with the boot loader or the relevant file structures. Are there any checks that I can carry out on the build to confirm that it is healthy? Have I wrongly called the hard disc /dev/hda7 in menu.lst? This is how the existing kernel -2.6.18-dcc-smp labels the devices. Can anybody recommend any literature that will explain simply what has gone wrong please. martin welsh This is a 'copy' of a message sent at the end of January. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
