Kernel Panic not syning vfs unable to boot fs and also showing list of available partitions
srikanth tiyyagura <srikanth.tulasiram <at> gmail.com>
2009-05-23 06:10:24 GMT
I am working on lfs project . I had built it but when booting i got the error message
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VFS: Cannot open root device "sda8" or unknown-block (8,8)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option , available partitions are
800 sda driver
801 sdb driver
810 sdb1
812 sdb2
813 sdb3
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unkown block (8,8)
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my hard disk partition table is
[root <at> localhost ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80025280000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xc99dc99d
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 2550 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 2551 9728 57657285 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda3 9729 9729 8032+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda5 2551 2720 1365493+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 5101 7650 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda7 7651 9728 16691503+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda8 3744 5100 10900071 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 2721 3743 8217216 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
In /dev/sda8 , i had lfs and on sda9 , i had mandriva
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I tried the settings like
SCSI complied directly not as a module but my error is remained.
please help me ...........
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