Andy,
The error is emitted from:
./init/do_mounts.c
I ran the following command and found this one match above:
find . -name *.c -exec grep "Cannot open root device" {} \; -print
Regards,
John
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 4:41 PM, John Mitchell <worka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Andy.
>
> I'm a bit out of phase with the email server.
>
> Yes -- the kernel does boot and prints a bunch of stuff (successful stuff)
> to screen.
>
> Then I get the following error followed by a "kernel panic"
>
> VFS: Cannot open root device "sdb8" or unknown-block(0,0)
>
>
> I don't think this is a 'grub' error -- perhaps a grub user error. I built
> a kernel using my existing .config file so I expect it to be good. However,
> my existing kernel uses a initrd.img file but I don't know how to create one
> of those? I'm not even sure I need one? It wasn't mentioned in the
> book-6.7?
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Andrew Benton <b3n...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 15:10:04 -0600
>> John Mitchell <worka...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I have an older and existing grub (0.98) installation on my host that
>> > works.
>> >
>> > I was hoping to use my existing grub installation and point to my new
>> LFS
>> > system.
>> >
>> > I believe that the new kernel is found -- there seems to be trouble with
>> > finding the LFS '/' partition.
>> >
>> > Any ideas or suggestions?
>>
>> It would help if you could give us some more clues as to what is going
>> on. Does the kernel boot at all? Does it print anything to screen? Any
>> kernel panic message? Or does grub print some sort of error message?
>>
>> Andy
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