Correction! I read a little more carefully. You have not compiled the correct drivers for your SCSI hard drive into the kernel. You can run lspci, then make menuconfig (In a different terminal) and match up the SCSI drive characteristics with a driver, most likely in the SCSI section of Device Drivers. This line here: [ 13.472000] 0300 4194302 hda driver : ide-cdrom Is the only available drive, which means that from a hardware standpoint, your hard drive is not being seen. When you compile support or your hard drive, MAKE SURE IT IS NOT A MODULE! Modules don't load until after the kernel loads, so if your root partition is brought in by a module, the kernel cannot find it, and cannot load. I hope this isn't too pedantic- it's very easy to overlook, and I'm not sure how much experience you have with other distributions.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Spahn, Daniel Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 2:35 PM To: Daniel Corda; LFS Support List Subject: RE: I really need help kernel panic We need more info. Can you supply your grub.conf (or the config for whatever bootloader you are using?) Also, are you sure your kernel is correctly configured for the hard drive? You probably either have a typo in your bootloader config, or you have a misconfigured kernel. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Corda Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 2:05 PM To: lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: I really need help kernel panic OK guys I am done but I have on big problem which I really need help on. My kernel panics on startup sayin [ 13.472000] VFS: Cannot open root device "sda5 or unknown-block(0,0) [ 13.472000] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions: [ 13.472000] 0300 4194302 hda driver : ide-cdrom [ 13.472000] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) I do not know what to do I have looked at some similar errors but cannot really isolate a problem. I have a lenovo/ibm t60 it has a scsi hardrive the partitions are as follows /dev/sda2/ ext3 /dev/sda1 extended /dev/sda5/ ext3 boot partition with lfs /dev/sda6/ swap sda 5 and 6 are in extended partition 1 I really do not know if this information is relevant but i noticed that my boot partitions type is ext3 and it is using vfs I enabled vfs as a module for compatibility. I have looked at a couple of forum conversations. please I really appreciate any solutions or idea on what to fix this problem. Thank you so much. Peace Dan C -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
