Re: Kernel panic - booting from USB harddisk

2009-10-02 Thread Hans Kaper
Op Fri, 02 Oct 2009 01:38:29 +0200 schreef Baho Utot baho-u...@columbus.rr.com: Hans Kaper wrote: Op Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:19:29 +0200 schreef Baho Utot baho-u...@columbus.rr.com: J.P.Kaper wrote: I am building LFS from book 6.4 on an ext3 logical partition of an external USB harddisk. My

Re: Kernel panic - booting from USB harddisk

2009-10-01 Thread Hans Kaper
Op Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:56:40 +0200 schreef Baho Utot baho-u...@columbus.rr.com: J.P.Kaper wrote: I am building LFS from book 6.4 on an ext3 logical partition of an external USB harddisk. My host system is SUSE 10.3 on one of my two internal harddisks. Booting from the USB disk fails with

Re: Kernel panic - booting from USB harddisk

2009-10-01 Thread Hans Kaper
Op Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:42:09 +0200 schreef Mike McCarty mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.net: Baho Utot wrote: J.P.Kaper wrote: I am building LFS from book 6.4 on an ext3 logical partition of an external USB harddisk. My host system is SUSE 10.3 on one of my two internal harddisks. Booting from

Re: Kernel panic - booting from USB harddisk

2009-10-01 Thread Mike McCarty
Hans Kaper wrote: See my reply to Baho Utot. Problem solved now. Thanks for your attention, Mike. I looked at every reply to Baho Utot by you, and I don't see one which says you solved the problem. I'd be very interested to see a repost or other report on what did the trick! Mike --

Re: Kernel panic - booting from USB harddisk

2009-10-01 Thread Hans Kaper
Op Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:05:52 +0200 schreef Danny Engelbarts d.engelba...@gmail.com: On Tuesday 29 September 2009 22:19:24 Hans Kaper wrote: Good suggestion. So once again I made an entry in Grub's menu.lst, carefully copying the disk/by-id-field from the SUSE-entry that boots allright from

Re: Kernel panic - booting from USB harddisk

2009-10-01 Thread Hans Kaper
Op Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:19:29 +0200 schreef Baho Utot baho-u...@columbus.rr.com: J.P.Kaper wrote: I am building LFS from book 6.4 on an ext3 logical partition of an external USB harddisk. My host system is SUSE 10.3 on one of my two internal harddisks. Booting from the USB disk fails with

Re: Kernel panic - booting from USB harddisk

2009-10-01 Thread Baho Utot
Hans Kaper wrote: Op Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:19:29 +0200 schreef Baho Utot baho-u...@columbus.rr.com: J.P.Kaper wrote: I am building LFS from book 6.4 on an ext3 logical partition of an external USB harddisk. My host system is SUSE 10.3 on one of my two internal harddisks. Booting

Re: Kernel panic - booting from USB harddisk

2009-09-29 Thread Hans Kaper
Op Tue, 29 Sep 2009 04:32:17 +0200 schreef Spahn, Daniel dsp...@cuh2a.com: Booting from the USB disk fails with [4.410067] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (2,0) Have you tried changing the partition number up or down by one? Yes, I have, but

Re: Kernel panic - booting from USB harddisk

2009-09-29 Thread Hans Kaper
Op Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:29:08 +0200 schreef Baho Utot baho-u...@columbus.rr.com: Ken Moffat wrote: 2009/9/26 J.P.Kaper spaky...@xs4all.nl: Maybe somebody else can find the right suggestion to let me solve my problem. Hans Kaper. One of the problems with usb drives is that they can

Re: Kernel panic - booting from USB harddisk

2009-09-29 Thread Philipp Christian Loewner
Hi, have you double-checked that the root= kernel parameter is set correctly in your menu.lst? So far, I only read about your fstab in this thread. Check again what suggestions the kernel makes for valid partition device nodes... Just in case you haven't tried yet. - Philipp --

Re: Kernel panic - booting from USB harddisk

2009-09-29 Thread Baho Utot
J.P.Kaper wrote: I am building LFS from book 6.4 on an ext3 logical partition of an external USB harddisk. My host system is SUSE 10.3 on one of my two internal harddisks. Booting from the USB disk fails with [4.410067] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on

Re:Re: Kernel panic - booting from USB harddisk

2009-09-28 Thread 龚逸玲
has anybody solved this problem, i have encountered it yet 在2009-09-27,Baho Utot baho-u...@columbus.rr.com 写道: Ken Moffat wrote: 2009/9/26 J.P.Kaper spaky...@xs4all.nl: Maybe somebody else can find the right suggestion to let me solve my problem. Hans Kaper. One of the

Re: Kernel panic - booting from USB harddisk

2009-09-26 Thread Ken Moffat
2009/9/26 J.P.Kaper spaky...@xs4all.nl: Maybe somebody else can find the right suggestion to let me solve my problem. Hans Kaper. One of the problems with usb drives is that they can take a long time to appear. I've never tried to boot from usb, but ISTR that there is a command-line

Re: Kernel panic - booting from USB harddisk

2009-09-26 Thread J.P.Kaper
J.P.Kaper wrote: I am building LFS from book 6.4 on an ext3 logical partition of an external USB harddisk. My host system is SUSE 10.3 on one of my two internal harddisks. Booting from the USB disk fails with [4.410067] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on

Re: Kernel panic - booting from USB harddisk

2009-09-26 Thread Baho Utot
Ken Moffat wrote: 2009/9/26 J.P.Kaper spaky...@xs4all.nl: Maybe somebody else can find the right suggestion to let me solve my problem. Hans Kaper. One of the problems with usb drives is that they can take a long time to appear. I've never tried to boot from usb, but ISTR that

Kernel panic - booting from USB harddisk

2009-09-25 Thread J.P.Kaper
I am building LFS from book 6.4 on an ext3 logical partition of an external USB harddisk. My host system is SUSE 10.3 on one of my two internal harddisks. Booting from the USB disk fails with [4.410067] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (2,0) In the

Re: Kernel panic - booting from USB harddisk

2009-09-25 Thread Mike McCarty
J.P.Kaper wrote: I am building LFS from book 6.4 on an ext3 logical partition of an external USB harddisk. My host system is SUSE 10.3 on one of my two internal harddisks. Booting from the USB disk fails with [4.410067] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on