I've installed LFS on a GPT SSD on a BIOS station with the help of
jhalfs and the kernel, started with grub-2, fails to boot completely as
it can't find the root filesystem. The familiar "VFS Unable to mount
root fs, Panic".
I've built LFS since 2003 or was it 2002 and I've seen this message
quite a few times. However this time, I'm unable to get it to boot
anything.
I've confirmed that the kernel works fine as I still have my old LFS
build on another drive on the same station.
I have /boot on sdf2 and / on sdf3
Model: ATA Crucial_CT120M50 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdf: 120GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1049kB 1000MB 999MB primary bios_grub
2 1000MB 5000MB 3999MB ext3 primary
3 5000MB 118GB 113GB xfs primary boot
4 118GB 120GB 2034MB linux-swap(v1) primary
/dev/sdf2: UUID="a6960224-5c35-43e9-920b-7d9e1225ab26" SEC_TYPE="ext2"
TYPE="ext3" PARTLABEL="primary" PARTUUID="96326d8d-fe5e-4c2d-acd5-6b9380441476"
/dev/sdf3: UUID="7440b882-aecb-4e4a-8ecb-24d7a31dc9f9" TYPE="xfs"
PARTLABEL="primary" PARTUUID="6335e500-106b-4a33-9e54-709a33681ba6"
/dev/sdf4: UUID="8128605c-690e-49d3-bbaa-5214f21c8c89" TYPE="swap"
PARTLABEL="primary" PARTUUID="a9e95be4-db76-4c4d-9f02-5b4f22c796b1"
/dev/sdf1: PARTLABEL="primary" PARTUUID="bb8dc183-06bc-4500-a205-afd753de1802"
When I boot the SSD, I set this drive in the BIOS as the first drive, so
as to be able to boot from it. I refer to the drive as hd0 in grub
console. It is still however referred to sdf when linux boots. I've
confirmed this in initrd.
linux (hd0,gpt2)/linux-3.10 root=/dev/sdf3
..and I've also tried:
linux (hd0,gpt2)/linux-3.10 root=PARTUUID=6335e500-106b-4a33-9e54-709a33681ba6
I've also tried initrd, which dumps me right in its simple shell. I'm
there able to mount /dev/sdf3 to /.root/, but not successful in running
"switch_root .root /sbin/init". I can post all that is happening in
initrd, but I think first I'll try to get this out and see if there's
anything I forgot. I've expected LFS to be bootable after running jhalfs
and fixing fstab.
# Begin /etc/fstab
#UUID=7440b882-aecb-4e4a-8ecb-24d7a31dc9f9 / xfs defaults 0 0
#UUID=8128605c-690e-49d3-bbaa-5214f21c8c89 swap swap pri=1 0 0
/dev/sdf3 / xfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sdf4 swap swap pri=1 0 0
proc /proc proc nosuid,noexec,nodev 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs nosuid,noexec,nodev 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
tmpfs /run tmpfs defaults 0 0
devtmpfs /dev devtmpfs mode=0755,nosuid 0 0
#UUID=a6960224-5c35-43e9-920b-7d9e1225ab26 /boot ext3
defaults 0 0
/dev/sdf2 /boot ext3 defaults 0 0
# End /etc/fstab
I'm on a Tyan Thunder n3600B (S2927-E) (S2927A2NRF-E) station and
I've compiled SATA chipset and XFS filesystem support into the kernel:
CONFIG_SATA_NV=y
CONFIG_XFS_FS=y
I'm quite stuck on this one and I'm open to anything. I've sat up the
last two days/nights trying to figure this one out and I've read the
whole internet;).
Any pointers as to what I can try?
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