Cannot open root device error.

Hi, I just finished a build of LFS 6.1 using the ALFS and the LiveCD 6.1.2. I'm building under VMware. When I go to boot off my drive I get the following error; VFS: Cannot open root device sda1 or unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct root= boot option Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS:

Re: Cannot open root device error.

Mark Twombley wrote: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on \ unknown-block(0,0) I'm assuming that my SCSI driver didn't install but I'm not sure. I can't use the shift-PgUp to see what was loaded and I can't see a log. Did you compile your SCSI driver or your

Re: Cannot open root device error.

Mark Twombley wrote: Matt I realize you probably already know how to do this but just incase someone else is following this thread I thought it might help them on how I solved their own problems. Indeed, thanks very much for the followup. It's amazing the number of times I've scoured the

RE: Cannot open root device error.

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:lfs-support- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew Burgess Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 10:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cannot open root device error. Mark Twombley wrote: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable

Cannot create link to / from $LFS/tools

I'm trying to make that link from / to $LFS/tools as root and I get this error: ln :'//tools': file exists Oh, one other thing? Won't this overwrite / ? Thanks, Joe -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the

(Ch.6.12) crt1.o: No such file

Hello, I am following LFS development flavour (2005.08.19) and ran across this error while performing the dummy.c sanity check after re-adjusting the toolchain. From what I know I followed the instructions exactly, except that I misspelled binutils-build to binutils-buils during pass 2 in

Re: Cannot create link to / from $LFS/tools

Joseph Quigley wrote: I'm trying to make that link from / to $LFS/tools as root and I get this error: ln :'//tools': file exists $LFS isn't set. Oh, one other thing? Won't this overwrite / ? No, it puts a link in the root directory, meaning /tools. Justin --

Error starting Bind

Hi all, My system has an lfs 6.1 installation, and I have installed the Bind server 9.3.1, but I can't start named. I think the cause is this message I have on startup (copied from the kernel.log file): kernel: process `named' is using obsolete setsockopt SO_BSDCOMPAT Anyone knows what could be

RE: Error starting Bind

Hi all, My system has an lfs 6.1 installation, and I have installed the Bind server 9.3.1, but I can't start named. I think the cause is this message I have on startup (copied from the kernel.log file): kernel: process `named' is using obsolete setsockopt SO_BSDCOMPAT Anyone knows what

shadow/su conflict (initgroups: Operation not permitted)

Good morning/noon/evening my fellow LFS'rs, I was hoping that someone might be able to help me out wih the following problem: I was working on my second LFS installation (6.1) (the first one (5.x) went flawlessly) and have chosen to use the user package system. So, to install packages, i

Re: (Ch.6.12) crt1.o: No such file

David Ciecierski wrote: Hello, I am following LFS development flavour (2005.08.19) and ran across this error while performing the dummy.c sanity check after re-adjusting the toolchain. From what I know I followed the instructions exactly, except that I misspelled binutils-build to