Hi
there,
So I've been reading through the LFS-6.0 book and following along. I know this isn't a totally Debian specific post, but
I'm using Debian as my host system and am an avid Debian user. My questions are
pretty much open to any distro though, since they refer to the kernel in
general. I'm actually on my third try, because on the first two I screwed
up a couple of times on small things that messed up the whole build. This time I
actually got all the way through without any errors or issues, hey third time is
a charm, right? However, I counted this as a success too soon, because I get a
kernel panic when I reboot. I used Debian Sarge as my host system and 2.6.8.1 as
the build kernel on both the host and destination system. Basically I have my
menu.lst for grub set to:
title
LFS-6.0
root
(hd0,3)
kernel /boot/lfskernel-2.6.8.1
root=/dev/hda4
boot
it goes through
the initial steps of booting, but then when it comes time for VFS to mount the
root fs it fails saying: "Kernel Panic: VFS cannot mount root fs unknown on
(3,4)" or something to that extent. If I try booting up with just kernel
/boot/lfskernel-2.6.8.1 and no "root=/dev/hda4" it fails similarly saying that I
must specify a valid "root=" option. I tried creating an initrd image from my
host system by copying the /etc/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.conf and /usr/sbin/mkinitrd
file to my lfs partition, chrooting and then running it...and that seemed to do
a little bit. With this it actually mounts the root fs as cramfs and gets a
little further and then dies with another kernel panic. This time it says
something about unable to load dev/console even though my lfs partition has
/dev/console, and then says something tried to kill init. At first I thought the
whole root= problem was something to do with the fact that my lfs partition is
ext3 and I had ext2 built into the kernel, and ext3 as a module...but then I
fixed this so both ext2 & ext3 were built in. So if someone out there could
help me out it would be really awesome.
Thanks,
Casey