Hello, In trying to catch up with the Joneses, I built a new machine around the latest i7 Ivy Bridge processor. As a quick and dirty start, I just moved the BLFS hard drive from my "standard" machine, intel E8400, kernel 3.6.1, to the new box. The two machines have the same basic, simple configuration, a hard drive (=< 160G) and an optical one. Obviously, I didn't expect instant smooth sailing on such a heavy-handed "upgrade" but this really has hit me hard:
<< VFS: Cannot open root device "sda3" or known-block(0,0): error -6 Please append a correct "root=" boot option: here are the available partitions: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) Pid: 1, comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.6.1 #1 Call trace: [.......] ? panic ... ... >> Comments: 1. My little DOS partition (sda1) works as nicely as before. 2. A Knoppix CD (7.0.4, kernel 3.4.9) works just fine on the new machine too. Most discouraging. An 'fdisk -l' shows my drive as clean as before (as "sda3"). 3. I tried another drive (which works identically on my old E8400 rig) and it exhibits the same behavior on the new one. 4. I went through a same type nightmare a few years ago under kinda similar circumstances. The kernel developers had changed drive names on me - from, say "hda3" to "sda3" so when I connected the "old" hda hard drive on a new kernel similar panic ensued. I fondly remember everybody got involved to help me (including Mr. Beekmans) and finally we got it solved (after a few drops of blood). Keeping the similarity intact, _in retrospect_, a simple kick in my behind (a "hint", as they say) should've been enough: "Hey dummy! Why don't you watch the 11 o'clock news !?: _everybody_ knows that the drive names have changed from "hd.." to "sd.." (for your own good!) !!!" 5. Consequently, if a generous soul can just offer a similar hint, in this instance, I'll be much appreciative: "Hey dummy! Don't you know that when you move to Ivy Bridge and H77, you have to change/add in 'xxxxxx' (kernel configuration?) this and that for your system to boot up at all!!!" Then I hope to be able to do my own heavy lifting from there on. Thank you, -- Alex -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
