Kernel panic... Unable to mount root fs

2008-07-01 Thread Christian Gardner
Hi all, hope someone can help me out, it's been five years since I last used LFS (or linux for that matter!) so I'm a bit rusty... I've gone through the LFS6.3 book. It all seems to go fine until I boot up the new system. These are the last three lines before it totally freezes: List of all

Re: Kernel panic... Unable to mount root fs

2008-07-01 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Christian Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, hope someone can help me out, it's been five years since I last used LFS (or linux for that matter!) so I'm a bit rusty... I've gone through the LFS6.3 book. It all seems to go fine until I boot up the new

RE: Kernel panic... Unable to mount root fs

2008-07-01 Thread Spahn, Daniel
Hi all, hope someone can help me out, it's been five years since I last used LFS (or linux for that matter!) so I'm a bit rusty... I've gone through the LFS6.3 book. It all seems to go fine until I boot up the new system. These are the last three lines before it totally freezes: List of all

Kernel panic... Unable to mount root fs

2008-07-01 Thread Christian Gardner
Almost certainly it's because the necessary driver is not compiled into the kernel. The Ubuntu .config and kernel will probably not work for you because the drivers are modules and you need to have an initramfs to load them before mounting root. I don't recall the exact settings, but I think

Re: Kernel panic... Unable to mount root fs

2008-07-01 Thread Christian Gardner
Just the controller is what we need. For libata, this corresponds to CONFIG_ATA_PIIX. Even on 2.6.22, I think you'll want the libata SATA support. I've been using ata_piix on two Intel systems with linux-2.6.22 for a while and haven't seen any issues. I think that setting with the ones

Re: Kernel panic... Unable to mount root fs

2008-07-01 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Christian Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just the controller is what we need. For libata, this corresponds to CONFIG_ATA_PIIX. Even on 2.6.22, I think you'll want the libata SATA support. I've been using ata_piix on two Intel systems with linux-2.6.22 for a