On 07/02/10 13:39, Aditya Bankar wrote: > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- >> From: Aditya Bankar<[email protected]> >> To: lfs support<[email protected]> >> Sent: Sun, 7 February, 2010 5:18:26 PM >> Subject: Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS: >> >> Hi, >> >> I am getting this problem while launching the new LFS 6.5: >> >> Root NFS: No NFS server available, giving up >> VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS trying floppy >> VFS: Cannot open root device "sda6" on unknown_block (2,0) >> Please append a correct "root=" boot options; here the options >> Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown_block >> (2,0) >> >> I did not install grub. I have instead added new entries in the host system's >> menu.lst. Since my LFS partition is /dev/sda6 as seen on host system I have >> added the following to menu.lst >> title LFS6.5 >> root (hd0,5) >> kernel /boot/lfskernel-2.6.30.2 root=/dev/sda6 >> >> A result of grep on my .config file is the following: >> grep NFS /mnt/lfs/compilation/linux-2.6.30.2/.config >> CONFIG_NFS_FS=y >> CONFIG_NFS_V3=y >> CONFIG_NFS_V3_ACL=y >> CONFIG_NFS_V4=y >> CONFIG_ROOT_NFS=y >> CONFIG_NFSD=y >> CONFIG_NFSD_V3=y >> # CONFIG_NFSD_V3_ACL is not set >> # CONFIG_NFSD_V4 is not set >> CONFIG_NFS_ACL_SUPPORT=y >> CONFIG_NFS_COMMON=y >> >> Why don't we use initrd in lfs? >> >> Thanks, >> Aditya >> > > BTW, I have compiled SATA drivers. > > -Aditya > > > > The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepage. > http://in.yahoo.com/
We need some more information. Are you trying to mount an NFS share as your root partition? If so I think you'll need to make an initrd. Or is / a filesystem on /dev/sda6? If so what filesystem? Did you compile support for it into the kernel? Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
