When I tried to begin working with my BLFS installation this morning, I found that the normally blanked screen would not fire up into Linux. So I powered the machine off and restarted. The usual Linux systemd messages started up, then stopped with this message:

---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: VRS: Unable to mount root fs on unknow-block(8,19).

This smells to me like the hard drive (/dev/sdb) went bad, but that's probably a wild guess.

I also let the machine boot up into Fedora, which is installed on /dev/sda. I tried to get into the BLFS chroot environment, but when I tried to mount the LFS sytem on /dev/sdb I got an error message that it could not do it for several possible reasons, including "bad block".

Any suggestions for what I should look for?

Alan
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