Hello! I've seen many people in the mailing list discussing about this problem, but since I tried a lot of possible configurations for the kernel without success I'm asking to you now... When I try to boot, the kernel reports these lines:
VFS: Cannot open root device "sdb1" or unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available pertitions: 0b00 1048575 sr0 driver: sr Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) Details about the system: For the whole process I used VMWare (that means SCSI devices support must be enabled, isn't it?) I used two hard disks, one (sda) had the host system (OpenSUSE 11), and I set the other to accept the LFS system (sdb: created sdb1 -> ext3 & sdb2 -> swap) Grub loader is set this way: root (hd1,0) -> the sdb1 partition setup (hdh1) -> stage 1 & 2 found, and also e2fs_stage1_5, all doing ok kernel /boot/lfskernel-2.6.27.4 root=/dev/sdb1 -> the kernel is found correctly (it completes automatically when pressing the tab button), and the name of the partition (I checked at least a million times) it is correct. SCSI devices enabled (made this list with "grep -i scsi .config"): CONFIG_SCSI=y CONFIG_SCSI_DMA=y CONFIG_SCSI_PROC_FS=y CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS=y CONFIG_SCSI_WAIT_SCAN=m CONFIG_SCSI_SPI_ATTRS=y CONFIG_SCSI_ISCSI_ATTRS=y CONFIG_SCSI_LOWLEVEL=y CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX=y CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX_OLD=y CONFIG_SCSI_AIC79XX=y CONFIG_SCSI_ADVANSYS=y CONFIG_SCSI_BUSLOGIC=y CONFIG_ISCSI_IBFT_FIND=y CONFIG_ISCSI_IBFT=y Strange behaviours I noticed: In the host system's boot folder there's a link to itself. (don't know if it may be useful, even if I don't think so) If someone has a hint please help me :) In the meantime I'll try the most stupid thing to do: make allyesconfig... maybe the problem is not in the kernel but elsewhere... Thank you for your work, Luca _________________________________________________________________ Quali sono le più cliccate della settimana? http://livesearch.it.msn.com/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
