On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Kaleb Hosie <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm really stumped right now and I could use some help. > > I've finished compiling the Kernel for my first LFS deployment and I after I > finished rebooting it for the first time, I get a Kernel Panic. Here's what > is looks like: > > VFS: Cannot open root device "sda1" or unknown-block(2,0) > Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available > partitions: > 0b00 1048575 dr0 driver: sr > Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(2,0) > > > >From what I gathered when I googled it, I don't think I selected to enable > >the right drivers. The system it's running on is an IBM x3650 with dual > >2.8GHz Xeon core 2 quad with VMWare ESX 3.5 installed. The server has > >5x250GB SAS drives in RAID 5. LFS is running as a VMWare Guest. I don't know > >if the drivers I have to enable are for VMWare or for IBM. Either way, how > >would I go about figuring out which drivers I'm missing and need? Thanks!
LFS sees the HW that VMWare shows it. Check grub file and your fstab file make sure they match sda or hda. make sure you compiled your kernel correctly for your HW you will also need to compile a virtual switch or two in the kernel. Not sure which for VMWare. -- If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy. - Thomas Jefferson -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
