hi all, i have compiled a linux-from-scratch system. but i am not able to boot it. the error says.. VFS: cannot open root device "hda11" or unknown-block (3,11) the partition structure is as follows -------------------------- [root@saturn ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40060403712 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4870 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 653 5245191 b W95 FAT32 /dev/hda2 654 4869 33865020 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 654 1958 10482381 b W95 FAT32 /dev/hda6 1959 3263 10482381 b W95 FAT32 /dev/hda7 3264 3276 104391 83 Linux /dev/hda8 3277 3309 265041 82 Linux swap /dev/hda9 3310 4438 9068661 83 Linux /dev/hda10 4439 4451 104391 83 Linux /dev/hda11 4452 4869 3357553+ 83 Linux --------------------------- of these, hda 10,11 are lfs /boot and / partitions (both ext2).my grub.conf file has following entry for LFS booting.. --------------------------- title LFS 6.1 root (hd0,9) kernel /lfskernel-2.6.11.12 root=/dev/hda11 ---------------------------

my fstab entries are.. --------------------------- /dev/hda11 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda10 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda8 swap swap pri=1 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=4,mode=620 0 0 shm /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 ------------------------------- i see all correct, anybody can point the error..? pls suggest a solution.

navin

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