On Sunday 29 November 2009 23:00:47 Ken Moffat wrote:
At some point (I thought it was *before* 2.6.28, but maybe I'm mistaken)
the kernel option for IDE disks changed (as part of the move to libata).
Unfortunately, all my systems use SATA drives, so I'm not entirely sure
which option is
Alberto Hernando wrote:
Hi.
I've tried it, and:
root:/boot/grub# grub-setup -r '(hd0,8)'
No device is specified.
The same. I've also tried several things using slashes and still the same.
Is there really something wrong with using lilo? I mean, how can I be sure
that grub will be able
2009/11/29 Alberto Hernando pajaro...@gmail.com:
Hi.
I'm building LFS-6.5 (-svn, actually), and I can't make it boot. I've done
the same in two machines, an old athlon amd and a pentium-iv. Kernel builds
fine in both systems, but none of them can boot. The error is the same, VFS
can't find a
On 11/29/09, Alberto Hernando wrote:
... The error is the same, VFS
can't find a valid root system, please add a valid root option. I
.. and /etc/fstab is as the book says.
If /etc/fstab is as the book says (verbatim), it won't work.
You must interpolate
/dev/xxx /fff
Alberto Hernando wrote:
Hi.
I've tried it, and:
root:/boot/grub# grub-setup -r '(hd0,8)'
No device is specified.
I gave incorrect advice before. Try:
grub-setup '(hd0)'
or
grub-setup /dev/sda
The -r should not be there. The syntax is:
grub-setup [OPTION]... DEVICE
If you
On 11/29/09, linux fan wrote:
The VFS can't find ... suggests that the boot loader (grub/lilo)
done its job and the kernel was loading until it choked on the
filesystem fstab told it,
If the message is exactly:
Kernel panic -not syncing VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
Then
