Hi, I am fairly new to linux and decided to try LFS to get my knowledge up a bit. I installed it with the normal procedure, (I believe i followed every single letter of the LFS book) and installed everything with tests showing that everything was compiled correctly. My system has a bit heavy partitioning on a single hd (I have an acer laptop): hd1: Windows, hd2: Extended hda5: Linx swap (Suse 10.1) hda6 Suse 10.1 ( / ) Reiser hda7: (/home) Reiser (for Suse) hda8: Linux swap (LFS) 1gb hda9: LFS ext3 9gb
I didn't install grub, since Suse had it already. I just added an LFS menu entry and made the appropriate choices: title LFS 6.2: (/boot/grub/menu.lst addition in SUSE partition) root (hd0,8) kernel /boot/lfskernel-2.6.16.38 root=/dev/hda9 When i boot i get this error, that seems to be a standard for some persons: VFS: kernel panic cant' mount device /dev/hda9 or unkown - block(0,0) I must mention that standard booting seems to start, since i see messages from device setup (like usb, ASLA, hard disks etc.). I also don't have the LFS partition as boot (I am not certainly i shouldn't but i think this shall just be on main partition that is hda1 (W95 FAT32 (LBA)) I followed the info in the faq and the info in various mailing list entries. I also tried to boot lfs using my SUSE's kernel. I recompiled kernel with various configs (including the SUSE's config). I also played with grub start-up changing root=... option. To me it smell udev realted, but still can't say. Has anybody of those that faced this problem solved it? Can someone else give an advice furthermore? Thanks in advance Nasos -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page