Re: linux-2.6.31.6 doesn't boot

2009-11-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Alberto Hernando wrote: Hi. I've tried it, and: root:/boot/grub# grub-setup -r '(hd0,8)' No device is specified. The same. I've also tried several things using slashes and still the same. Is there really something wrong with using lilo? I mean, how can I be sure that grub will be able

Re: linux-2.6.31.6 doesn't boot

2009-11-29 Thread Ken Moffat
2009/11/29 Alberto Hernando pajaro...@gmail.com: Hi. I'm building LFS-6.5 (-svn, actually), and I can't make it boot. I've done the same in two machines, an old athlon amd and a pentium-iv. Kernel builds fine in both systems, but none of them can boot. The error is the same, VFS can't find a

Re: build problem LFS 6.5

2009-11-29 Thread Baho Utot
linux fan wrote: On 11/28/09, Baho Utot wrote: make test | tee $CURRDIR/06.58.Check.log make install | tee $CURRDIR/06.58.Install.log Logging helps so much when things go wrong. As already mentioned Scripting an LFS build is *hard* [putolin] I only suggest this due

Re: errors at 6.7. Linux-2.6.30.2 API Headers

2009-11-29 Thread knothead00
I assume you mean Chapter 5.6, but we don't really reference the pdf pages. sorry -- i meant when i try to install (in section) 6.7. Linux-2.6.30.2 API Headers i get the errors. root:/sources/linux-2.6.30.2# make headers_check   CHK     include/linux/version.h   UPD    

Re: errors at 6.7. Linux-2.6.30.2 API Headers

2009-11-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
knothea...@gmail.com wrote: I assume you mean Chapter 5.6, but we don't really reference the pdf pages. sorry -- i meant when i try to install (in section) 6.7. Linux-2.6.30.2 API Headers i get the errors. root:/sources/linux-2.6.30.2# make headers_check CHK

Re: linux-2.6.31.6 doesn't boot

2009-11-29 Thread linux fan
On 11/29/09, Alberto Hernando wrote: ... The error is the same, VFS can't find a valid root system, please add a valid root option. I .. and /etc/fstab is as the book says. If /etc/fstab is as the book says (verbatim), it won't work. You must interpolate /dev/xxx /fff

Re: linux-2.6.31.6 doesn't boot

2009-11-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Alberto Hernando wrote: Hi. I've tried it, and: root:/boot/grub# grub-setup -r '(hd0,8)' No device is specified. I gave incorrect advice before. Try: grub-setup '(hd0)' or grub-setup /dev/sda The -r should not be there. The syntax is: grub-setup [OPTION]... DEVICE If you

Re: linux-2.6.31.6 doesn't boot

2009-11-29 Thread linux fan
On 11/29/09, linux fan wrote: The VFS can't find ... suggests that the boot loader (grub/lilo) done its job and the kernel was loading until it choked on the filesystem fstab told it, If the message is exactly: Kernel panic -not syncing VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) Then