First of all, thanks to everyone for all the help. I realized yesterday that when I cfdisk'd, the partition was unfortunately fat16 (I think it is due to creating the partitioning in the ms2k and wrongly thinking mke2fs changed the filesystem type on the actual partition). I got it fixed to ext3 without problem and had meant to email thanks to all (especially dan, who has been helpful in the past). However, now I run into a problem with the actual reboot. The kernel attempts to load and I get:
VFS: Cannot open root device "sda2" or unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic - not sysncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) Now finally catching onto all my errors with linux, I immediately thought my problem was with the menu.lst file which on two particular lines states: root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/lfskernel-2.6.16.27 root=/dev/sda2 I fooled around with this (orig config) and got similar results. Not really sure where else the problem could be arising. My harddrive is Western Digital SATA 3 160gb so I believe the sda2 root is correct, but I did try it with hda2, and similar result. All help is appreciated as always. Ellis ----- Original Message ----- From: Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, September 18, 2006 10:06 am Subject: Re: Chap 8.4 Problem with GRUB To: LFS Support List <[email protected]> > On 9/18/06, Brandon Peirce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I have not yet mastered Grub myself, but the error message looks > very> suspiciously like your LFS partition has the wrong type ID in > the partition > > table. If I interpret that number correctly, type 0x6 is FAT16 > whereas an > > ext3 filesystem should have type 0x83. You can change this using > the> 't' command in util-linux's fdisk. > > I was hoping you'd chime in, Brandon. 0x6 is indeed a FAT partition > type. I read that when I was trying to google this issue. I thought it > was implying the first or third partition was unreadable. Maybe you're > right. > > -- > Dan > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page > -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
