Frederick Muriithi wrote: > After installing grub according to chapter 8 of the LFS book (LFS > 6.8), I tried to boot into my new lfs system and got the following > sample output on the screen: > > [ 3.584997] VFS: Cannot open root device "hda6" or unknown-block(0,0) > [ 3.585205] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the > available partitions: > [ 3.585482] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs > on unknown-block(0,0)
Sounds like you do not have the proper kernel drivers for your hardware. > [ 3.585754] Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.37 #1 > [ 3.585911] Call Trace: > [ 3.586084] [<c145f114>] ? printk+0xf/0x11 > [ 3.586243] [<c145f00a>] panic+0x50/0x14b > [ 3.586404] [<c16a9b9d>] mount_block_root+0x1e3/0x1f2 > [ 3.586565] [<c10c0678>] ? sys_mknod+0x13/0x15 > [ 3.586722] [<c16a9cf3>] mount_root+0x8e/0x96 > [ 3.586880] [<c16a9e40>] prepare_namespace+0x145/0x16c > [ 3.587045] [<c16a98f7>] kernel_init+0x195/0x1a4 > [ 3.587204] [<c16a9762>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x1a4 > [ 3.587363] [<c1002ef6>] kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x10 > > I could not find the boot log file (/var/log/boot.log), so I > transcribed the screen output as faithfully as I could. > I'd appreciate any pointers to my error, so I may correct them. > If you have a working Linux system installed or a live cd try this site http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/ and follow the instructions. It can greatly help you identify what drivers are required for your hardware. -- Eric Plummer [email protected] -- Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. No top posting, please. -- -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
