On 2 November 2014 18:00, Anthony Price <[email protected]> wrote: > I have just finished building LFS 7.6 but when I boot, it fails with '.... > unable to mount root fs on unknown block 8,2' > > I compiled the Kernel with support for SATA and ext4 in the kernel (i.e. > not modules) and carried out the copy operations as given in the book. > > Then, from the host system (XUbuntu 14.10 64 bit), ran update-grub. > > The grub boot screen shows the LFS installation as an option but it fails > with the kernel panic message. > > Any ideas would be welcome. >
If the kernel's been configured properly, as you say, then the reason is usually that grub is looking for root fs on the incorrect partition. Richard
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