Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas wrote: > On Fri, Feb 06, at 11:21 Anthony Price wrote: > >> Portability >> >> Host system Ubuntu 8.10 >> Book 6.4 >> >> I am experiencing problems moving a working installation between machines. >> >> Here's how I built the system: >> >> On machine A >> >> Partition disk & unstall Ubuntu >> Remove disk and install on machine B >> Build LFS >> Make this bootable >> Machine B is now dual boot Ubuntu (on sda1) and LFS on sda3 >> >> *** Move this disk back to Machine A (not B as in the original post) *** >> Ubuntu boots ok >> >> LFS reports: >> Root-NFS: No NFS server available, giving up. >> VFS Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy >> Cannot open root device "sda3" or unknown-block (2,0) >> >> Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available >> partitions: >> >> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown >> block (2,0) >> > > You probably need to recompile the kernel to include the correct driver > for your controller in machine A. > In the 2.6.27 kernel series this should be included under the following > menu: > > Device Drivers ---> Serial ATA (prod) and Parallel ATA (experimental) drivers > > Regards, > Ag. >
That fixed it! Many thanks (again). If there's anything that I have learnt from LFS it's how little I really know! Regards, Anthony. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
