On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 16:41:12 -0600 John Mitchell <worka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Andy. > > I'm a bit out of phase with the email server. > > Yes -- the kernel does boot and prints a bunch of stuff (successful stuff) > to screen. > > Then I get the following error followed by a "kernel panic" > > VFS: Cannot open root device "sdb8" or unknown-block(0,0) That's good that grub finds the kernel and boots it. perhaps the problem is with the grub command line? Maybe the kernel thinks the partition is /dev/sda8 or /dev/hdb8 or something? Try some different combinations for the root= option that grub passes to the kernel. > > I don't think this is a 'grub' error -- perhaps a grub user error. I built > a kernel using my existing .config file so I expect it to be good. However, > my existing kernel uses a initrd.img file but I don't know how to create one > of those? I'm not even sure I need one? It wasn't mentioned in the > book-6.7? > You shouldn't need an initrd, as long as you compiled everything important into the kernel (no modules!). I suspect that the config that you started from uses modules. By important I mean all the bits that support the motherboard's chipset, the filesystem, the disk controllers and so on. They need to be built into the kernel. Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
