Am Dienstag, 19. September 2006 05:34 schrieb Ellis Wilson: > First of all, thanks to everyone for all the help. I realized yesterday > that when I cfdisk'd, the partition was unfortunately fat16 (I think it > is due to creating the partitioning in the ms2k and wrongly thinking > mke2fs changed the filesystem type on the actual partition). I got it > fixed to ext3 without problem and had meant to email thanks to all > (especially dan, who has been helpful in the past). However, now I run > into a problem with the actual reboot. The kernel attempts to load and > I get: > > VFS: Cannot open root device "sda2" or unknown-block(0,0) > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic - not sysncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on > unknown-block(0,0)
Have a look at http://archives.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives/lfs-support/2006-August/031351.html > Now finally catching onto all my errors with linux, I immediately > thought my problem was with the menu.lst file which on two particular > lines states: > > root (hd0,1) > kernel /boot/lfskernel-2.6.16.27 root=/dev/sda2 > > I fooled around with this (orig config) and got similar results. Not > really sure where else the problem could be arising. My harddrive is > Western Digital SATA 3 160gb so I believe the sda2 root is correct, but > I did try it with hda2, and similar result. All help is appreciated as > always. > > Ellis HTH, Leonhard. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
