Sven Bartscher wrote:
> hey guys!
> I didn't installed GRUB in the chapter 8 and configured my already
> installed GRUB
That's OK.
with writing the following text in the /boot/grub.cfg
>
> set default=0
> set timeout=5
>
> insmod ext2
> set root=(hd0,msdos4) #i tried it with set root=(hd0,4) too
>
> menuentry "GNU/Linux, Linux 3.5.2-lfs-7.2" {
> linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.5.2-lfs-7.2
> root=UUID=4f9f6834-c55b-492e-a70c-4e3bca952f5b ro
> }
The kernel doesn't understand UUIDs. You need an initrd. See BLFS
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/postlfs/initramfs.html
-- Bruce
> I can't use the /dev/sdxy partition names because i have two hard drives
> (IDE and SATA) and the names are after rebooting randomly mixed. So i
> can't be sure which is the right /dev/sdxy file.
>
> I try to boot my new lfs system and it don't work instead i get this
> message (a little bit more but i think this is the important part):
> VFS: Cannot open root device "UUID=4f9f6834-c55b-492e-a70c-4e3bca952f5b"
> or unknown-block(0,0): error -6
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available
> partitions:
> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
> unknown-block(0,0)
>
> I don't use an extra /boot partition so i have two /boot folders one on
> my Ubuntu(containing GRUB and the Ubuntu kernel) partition and one on my
> LFS (containing the LFS kernel) partition can this work?
> Can i even use UUIDs for lfs?
> Did i anything else wrong?
>
> my host system: Ubuntu 12.10
> my lfs version 7.2
>
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