Baho Utot wrote:
> J.P.Kaper wrote:
>> I am building LFS from book 6.4 on an ext3 logical partition of an
>> external USB harddisk.
>> My host system is SUSE 10.3 on one of my two internal harddisks.
>>
>> Booting from the USB disk fails with
>> "[4.410067] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount
>> root fs on unknown-block (2,0)"
>>
>>
> From devices.txt
>
> 2 block Floppy disks
> 0 = /dev/fd0 Controller 0, drive 0, autodetect
> 1 = /dev/fd1 Controller 0, drive 1, autodetect
> 2 = /dev/fd2 Controller 0, drive 2, autodetect
> 3 = /dev/fd3 Controller 0, drive 3, autodetect
> 128 = /dev/fd4 Controller 1, drive 0, autodetect
> 129 = /dev/fd5 Controller 1, drive 1, autodetect
> 130 = /dev/fd6 Controller 1, drive 2, autodetect
> 131 = /dev/fd7 Controller 1, drive 3, autodetect
>
>
> Some one correct me if I am wrong but
> It looks to me that it is trying to boot/read/sync the floppy disk
It is, but that's likely just that it's trying one thing after
another, and failing, then producing a report on the last thing
it tried.
Mike
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