J.P.Kaper wrote: > I am building LFS from book 6.4 on an ext3 logical partition of an > external USB harddisk. > My host system is SUSE 10.3 on one of my two internal harddisks. > > Booting from the USB disk fails with > "[4.410067] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount > root fs on unknown-block (2,0)" > > From devices.txt
2 block Floppy disks 0 = /dev/fd0 Controller 0, drive 0, autodetect 1 = /dev/fd1 Controller 0, drive 1, autodetect 2 = /dev/fd2 Controller 0, drive 2, autodetect 3 = /dev/fd3 Controller 0, drive 3, autodetect 128 = /dev/fd4 Controller 1, drive 0, autodetect 129 = /dev/fd5 Controller 1, drive 1, autodetect 130 = /dev/fd6 Controller 1, drive 2, autodetect 131 = /dev/fd7 Controller 1, drive 3, autodetect Some one correct me if I am wrong but It looks to me that it is trying to boot/read/sync the floppy disk -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page