How to make the kernel support NTFS?

Prashant Shah pshah.mumbai at gmail.com
Tue Aug 23 12:45:18 EDT 2011


Hi,

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 9:28 PM, Parmenides <mobile.parmenides at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>    I have dumped a lfs 6.3 cdrom to a virutal hard disk in vmware,
> and it goes without any problem. The original kernel version of lfs
> 6.3 is 2.6.25. I have upgraded it to 2.6.34 and it seems work well.
> But, when trying to compile the kernnel 2.6.34 to include the NTFS
> support, the kernel can not boot and gives me the following messages:
>
> Root-NFS: No NFS server available, giving up.
> VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy.
> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(2,0)

NFS != NTFS

You are trying to mount the root file system using Network File System
(NFS) - remote mounting.

NFS option is in File system > Network File System > NFS



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