On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Kaleb Hosie <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm really stumped right now and I could use some help. > > I've finished compiling the Kernel for my first LFS deployment and I after I > finished rebooting it for the first time, I get a Kernel Panic. Here's what > is looks like: > > VFS: Cannot open root device "sda1" or unknown-block(2,0) > Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available > partitions: > 0b00 1048575 dr0 driver: sr > Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(2,0) > > > >From what I gathered when I googled it, I don't think I selected to enable > >the right drivers. The system it's running on is an IBM x3650 with dual > >2.8GHz Xeon core 2 quad with VMWare ESX 3.5 installed. The server has > >5x250GB SAS drives in RAID 5. LFS is running as a VMWare Guest. I don't know > >if the drivers I have to enable are for VMWare or for IBM. Either way, how > >would I go about figuring out which drivers I'm missing and need? Thanks!
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