----- Original Message ----- From: "Danny Vukobratovich" <[email protected]> To: "LFS Support List" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 6:49:37 AM Subject: Re: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS; Unable to mount root fs on 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 <blockquote> -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page </blockquote> 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 Sent from my iPhone -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page On a side not from this, I also had to load a lot of different network drivers to get the eth0 interface to come up in a VMware environment: Danny Vukobratovich System Administrator
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