RIGHT!! GOT IT!! Indeed it was kernel configuration problem. I did one more compilation and chose more things this time ( did about a dozen of changes, don't know which exactly was the problem).
Thank you all. On Thu 22 Mar 2007 12:22, ILIOPOULOS ATHANASIOS wrote: > Hi, > > I am fairly new to linux and decided to try LFS to get my knowledge up a > bit. I installed it with the normal procedure, (I believe i followed every > single letter of the LFS book) and installed everything with tests showing > that everything was compiled correctly. My system has a bit heavy > partitioning on a single hd (I have an acer laptop): hd1: Windows, > hd2: Extended > hda5: Linx swap (Suse 10.1) > hda6 Suse 10.1 ( / ) Reiser > hda7: (/home) Reiser (for Suse) > hda8: Linux swap (LFS) 1gb > hda9: LFS ext3 9gb > > I didn't install grub, since Suse had it already. I just added an LFS > menu > entry and made the appropriate choices: title LFS 6.2: (/boot/grub/menu.lst > addition in SUSE partition) > root (hd0,8) > kernel /boot/lfskernel-2.6.16.38 root=/dev/hda9 > > When i boot i get this error, that seems to be a standard for some persons: > > VFS: kernel panic cant' mount device /dev/hda9 or unkown - block(0,0) > > I must mention that standard booting seems to start, since i see messages > from device setup (like usb, ASLA, hard disks etc.). I also don't have the > LFS partition as boot (I am not certainly i shouldn't but i think this > shall just be on main partition that is hda1 (W95 FAT32 (LBA)) > > I followed the info in the faq and the info in various mailing list > entries. I also tried to boot lfs using my SUSE's kernel. I recompiled > kernel with various configs (including the SUSE's config). I also played > with grub start-up changing root=... option. To me it smell udev realted, > but still can't say. > > Has anybody of those that faced this problem solved it? Can someone else > give an advice furthermore? > > Thanks in advance > Nasos -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
