Solved! It seems kernel-2.6.16.27 does not natively support my sata controller (promise fasttrack 378) as it also has pata. I tried to find a patch for this but very little came up on google so decided to upgrade to kernel-2.6.20.2. It worked just fine :)) Hope this helps someone aside from me!
I now have a couple of minor issues that I don't need to bother you lot with so i'll stop asking numpty questions and leave you all in peace! LFS is a great project, and my thanks to everyone involved. Nick > Hi, > I've just finished the LFS book and have stumbled on one last problem... I > hope. > > When rebooting (yeah you guessed it!) I get a kernel panic: VFS: error. > > So, I thought, as I have a fasttrack 378 sata controller all I'd need to > do > is make sure that grub was pointing to the right partition, and all the > applicable sata kernel options were selected, recompile and > bob's yr uncle! but sadly not: ;) > > Having looked through a vast array of different fixes, it seems like I > have > exhausted all possibilities. I'm starting to wonder if I need a kernel > module for my controller, does anyone know if this is the case? > > Also, something I noticed while poking around was that after unmounting > $LFS > in chapter 9.3 all the /mnt/lfs/dev files are missing apart from > "console" > and "null". Is that right? > > Below is my set-up as it stands at the moment: > > vmware disk 20gb > 3 partitions: > root sda1 > swap sda2 > usr sda3 > > grub > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/lfskernel-2.6.16.27 root=/dev/hda1 ( I've also tried sda1) > > > fstab > > /dev/sda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 > > /dev/sda2 swap swap pri=1 0 0 > > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 > > sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 > > devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=4,mode=620 0 0 > > shm /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > > Thanks in advance for your help > > Nick > > > > -- > 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
