________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Walter Barnes Sent: Sun 8/26/2007 9:47 PM To: LFS Support List Subject: Re: Can't open boot device
From: Walter Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>From: András Stöckert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>I have installed lfs 6.2 and used the 2.6.16.53. The / fs is /dev/hda5
>>and is ext3. At boot I get the following error:
>>
>>"
>>VFS: Cannot open root device "hda5" or unknown-block(0,0)
>>Please append a correct "root=" boot option
>>Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs or unknown-block(0,0)
>>"
>
>Could you post your menu.lst file? Also, are you using Grub or Windows for the
>boot menu? I have also >built LFS 6.2 on a multi-boot system with Windows XP
>on hda1 and would like to help.
Scratch that. I just did a search on Google and the problem is that the kernel
does not recognize the filesystem on hda5. So either the kernel was compiled
without support for ext3 (check the config file) or there is something wrong
with the way hda5 is formatted.
I hope that helps,
Walter
Another thought for you: If everything is on /dev/hda5, I believe your / mount
should be specified within your menu.lst as hd(0,4).... That's alot quicker to
check than your kernel .config!
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