Op Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:19:29 +0200 schreef Baho Utot <[email protected]>:
> 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 > As I said in another post, I am able to boot now by way of a work-around. But I am still interested to know why my former way did not work, so I will try your suggestions (if the forum-moderator allows us to carry on the thread). Hans Kaper. -- -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
