Am Sonntag, 20. August 2006 12:51 schrieb Brandon Peirce: > Mag. Leonhard Landrock wrote: > >When trying to boot my LFS kernel, it starts and finally gets stuck with > >the > >following error: > > > >VFS: Cannot open root device "sdb3" or unknown-block (0,0) > >Please append a correct "root" boot option > >Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block > >(0,0) > > > > > >My LFS system: > >========== > > > >(part of) linux kernel configuration: > >------------------------------------------------------ > > > >Device Drivers ---> USB support ---> > >[*] USB Mass Storage support > >[*] USB Mass Storage verbose debug > > I'm not sure the relevance of USB without knowing your hardware in detail. > However, if your boot device is on /dev/sdb you definitely need to make > sure that you have the relevant SCSI support compiled into the kernel > (not a module).
As I said: My boot device for LFS is an external USB hard disk. In fact, it is a Western Digital WD2500BB in an external USB case. > If it's a SATA disk, you will find the SATA drivers under SCSI low level > drivers in the kernel config. If you're not sure which SATA driver to use, > `lsmod |grep sata_' on your host box should be helpful. No. It should be an IDE device. Take a look at "http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=41";. > >partitions: > >--------------- > > > >/dev/sdb3 / ext3 defaults 1 1 > > You also need ext3 filesystem support compiled in to the kernel > (not as a module). I do have it. (part of) linux kernel configuration: ------------------------------------------------------ File systems ---> <*> Ext3 journalling file system support [*] Ext3 extended attributes [*] Ext3 POSIX Access Control Lists [*] Ext3 Security Labels > Hope that helps, > Brandon. Leonhard. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
