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)" > > I have done some more research on your problem.
Try this in /etc/fstab for the USB disk UUID=6342a6b5-25cf-4d01-a318-68309d12ab5b / ext3 defaults 1 1 change the blkid to the correct value based on $ blkid /dev/sdxx Are you trying to boot with grub on the USB drive? If so try changing /boot/grub/menu.lst kernel line like this kernel /boot/lfskernel-2.6.30.2 root=/dev/sdd1 rootdelay=15 ro quite change the /dev/sdd1 to the correct value for your USB drive If you have success then try to use UUID in the menu.lst file like this kernel /boot/lfskernel-2.6.30.2 root=UUID=6342a6b5-25cf-4d01-a318-68309d12ab5b rootdelay=15 ro quite -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
