John Mitchell wrote: > Thanks Andy. > Yes -- the kernel does boot and prints a bunch of stuff (successful stuff) > to screen.
GRUB is fine. > Then I get the following error followed by a "kernel panic" > > VFS: Cannot open root device "sdb8" or unknown-block(0,0) > > > 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? Make sure ext3 is built into the kernel. # # File systems # # CONFIG_EXT2_FS is not set CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y # CONFIG_EXT3_DEFAULTS_TO_ORDERED is not set CONFIG_EXT3_FS_XATTR=y CONFIG_EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL=y CONFIG_EXT3_FS_SECURITY=y -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
