On Mar 22, 2007, at 5:22 AM, ILIOPOULOS ATHANASIOS wrote: > 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) >
HEllo, This is a classic example of not having everything built into the kernel to mount the rootfs. Drive controller, block device driver, and filesystem driver all need to be in the kernel and not as modules. Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
