Alan Feuerbacher wrote:
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?
It does indeed sound like a bad drive. A couple of things to check:
Does /dev/sdb exist? What about the partitions (/dev/sdb?)
Does fdisk/gdisk see the partition table?
If so, does a fsck on the partitions identify problems?
-- Bruce
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