robert wrote: > I'm out to sea here. Worked through 6.8 build without error (it would seem). > However, attempt to boot yields (in part): > > <<<<<< > scanned 0 and added 0 devices > autorun ... > ... autorun DONE. > Root-NFS: no NFS server address > VFS: unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy. > VFS: Cannot open root device "sdb5" or unknown block(2,0) > Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available > partitions: > Ob00 1048575 sr0 driver: sr > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block(2,0) > >>>> > > /dev/sdb5 is proper device ... all lfs files in place.
When you built the kernel, you probably did not build in all the required drivers to access the hard disks (no modules). > Following this failure to re-boot, I re-enter the build environment this way: > export LFS=/mnt/lfs > sudo chroot "$LFS" /usr/bin/env -i \ > > HOME=/root TERM="$TERM" PS1='\u:\w\$ ' \ > > PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin \ > > /bin/bash --login > > then ... > $grub-mkdevicemap --device-map=device.map > $cat device.map ... > > file device.map is empty! You have to remount /mnt/lfs/dev, however GRUB is OK. It started the kernel. Your problem is in the kernel configuration. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
