Booting LFS Error -VFS: Unable to mount root

2011-08-01 Thread Oz Nahum Tiram
Hi Everyone, I know this error has been encountered many times before, but I just can't get over this last hurdle. I have been digging the net for more than a month now, and recompiled my kernel over and over. But still no luck. Here is some background: I installed a debian system on VMWARE; this

Re: Kernel Panic (LFS 6.8)

2011-08-01 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 1 Aug 2011 15:59:45 +0800 Frederick Muriithi wrote: > After installing grub according to chapter 8 of the LFS book (LFS > 6.8), I tried to boot into my new lfs system and got the following > sample output on the screen: > > [ 3.584997] VFS: Cannot open root device "hda6" or unknown-b

Re: ttyS0 create time

2011-08-01 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 1 Aug 2011 10:04:49 +0800 (CST) zhangxinlong wrote: > Hello./dev/ttyS0 what time create... does it in kernel initrd.. orcreate > in user space for using this commnad :mknod /dev/ttyS0 c 4 64mknod /dev/ttyS1 > c 4 65I'm confused , who can help me.. Thanks. We don't use an initrd i

Re: Kernel Panic (LFS 6.8)

2011-08-01 Thread Eric Plummer
Frederick Muriithi wrote: > After installing grub according to chapter 8 of the LFS book (LFS > 6.8), I tried to boot into my new lfs system and got the following > sample output on the screen: > > [ 3.584997] VFS: Cannot open root device "hda6" or unknown-block(0,0) > [ 3.585205] Please ap

Kernel Panic (LFS 6.8)

2011-08-01 Thread Frederick Muriithi
After installing grub according to chapter 8 of the LFS book (LFS 6.8), I tried to boot into my new lfs system and got the following sample output on the screen: [ 3.584997] VFS: Cannot open root device "hda6" or unknown-block(0,0) [ 3.585205] Please append a correct "root=" boot optio