On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Alberto Hernando <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm building LFS-6.5 (-svn, actually), and I can't make it boot. I've done > the same in two machines, an old athlon amd and a pentium-iv. Kernel builds > fine in both systems, but none of them can boot. The error is the same, VFS > can't find a valid root system, "please add a valid root option". I'm using > lilo. I've made sure that ext3 is built inside the kernel, and I'm using old > configs from 2.6.26 and 2.6.28. I think both configs are ok, and /etc/fstab > is as the book says. I can't find the mistake. These aren't my first lfs > systems, but I'm lost. I have the feeling that perhaps new versions of the > kernel have something that I'm missing, because I get the same error in such > different systems. I'm sorry I can't provide a log. > Does anybody know what I might be missing? Honestly, unless you are using pure64, you should use GRUB instead. Make shure that your IDE/PATA/SATA drivers are built right in the kernel. Just so you know.
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