On Nov 16, 2011, at 6:35, Subrata Paul <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I am trying to build an LFS system as a guest on VMware workstation (version
> – 7.1.4). I am following the 6.8 version of the LFS book. All the packages
> mentioned in this book are successfully compiled and installed. However,
> after the first boot it gives the following error:
>
>
>
> Kernel panic – not syncing: VFS: Cannot open root device “sda3” or
> unknown-block(8,2)
>
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available
>
> partitions:
>
> 1600 4194302 hdc driver: ide-cdrom
>
> 0800 8192 sda driver: sd
>
>
>
> I have searched the LFS FAQ and mailing list. This problem is same as the
> problem mentioned in the link
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-support/2010-April/038472.html
>
>
>
> The hard disk provided by VMware to the guest OS (LFS system) is of a SCSI
> type hard disk. I have formatted root partition with ext3 file system. So, I
> have compiled the kernel with ext2, ext3 fs, all SCSI, ATA and PATA driver.
> All the above drivers are compiled as a built in feature (not as a separate
> module).
>
>
>
> Please help me to fix it. Please let me know if you need any additional
> information.
>
>
>
> Thanks and Regards,
>
> Subrata
>
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I had problems with this in 7.0 also. I ended up having to start over changing
the hard drive type to IDE. It is now working for me.
Danny Vukobratovich
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