Danny Vukobratovich wrote: > On Nov 16, 2011, at 6:35, Subrata Paul <[email protected]> > wrote: >> 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.
> 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. That's a little extreme. The only thing that needed to be fixed is the kernel and perhaps fstab or grub.cfg. Those are the only things that address HW before you get to the boot scripts. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
