Greg Morin wrote:
> All: thank-you for the help so far. I have posted this on gentoo-user as
> well, and will continue to work with folks individually here or
> publically on that list.
>
> The responses so far have helped - Bigfish (Richard), I may respond
> directly to your RFI as you may be able to pinpoint the driver(s) I'm
> missing. I have added driver support in newly compiled kernels and
> gotten different errors - but I think I'm close.
>
> Again all - thanks. I'll pursue on gentoo-user...
>
> Gpm
>
> On 11/3/06, *Ladislav Laska* <ladislav.laska@...
> <mailto:ladislav.laska@...>> wrote:
>
> Andrew is right, this is wrong list. Anyway, you should check that
> modules for your IDE controller are loaded in initrd (or compiled into
> kernel).
>
> You can do this by selecting the second choice in grub (rescue). It
> will boot into busybox (a very basic shell) and you should be (un)able
> to mount filesystems. I don't know what exactly will busybox do for
> your, but maybe you will need to create device node by hand.
>
> For more informations, please write to gentoo-user list, or contact me
> personally (but NOT this list, unless this is gentoo-installer's
> problem).
>
> On 11/3/06, Greg Morin <gpmorin@...
> <mailto:gpmorin@...>> wrote:
> > Good day,
> >
> > I've installed (several times) on a ThinkPad T-40, trying both
> manual
> > kernel config and genkernel. I followed the online manual
> explicitly (I
> > think). The machine is currently loaded with the manual config.
> Either way,
> > the results are similar.
> >
> > Grub shows the two boot options, then begins loading the OS.
> >
> > The machine begins to boot, starts loading modules, then kernel
> panics:
> > VFS:Cannot open root device "hda3" or unknown-block(0,0)
> > Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
> > unknown-block(0,0)
> >
> > There is a single fixed disk:
> > Device Boot
> Size System Filesystem Mount
> > point
> > ======= ==== ===== ========= ========= =========
> > /dev/hda1 * 32M Linux ext2
> > /boot
> > /dev/hda2 3G Linux swap none
> > none
> > /dev/hda3 ~71G Linux ext3
> > /
> >
> > I am able to mount and use these partitions after booting from CD.
> > /etc/fstab (/mnt/gentoo/etc/fstab when booted from disk) looks good.
> >
> > Filesystems ext2 and ext3 are compiled into the kernel.
> >
> > Grub details:
> > device.map
> > (hd0) /dev/hda
> > grub.conf
> > default 0
> > timeout 5
> > splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/spash.xpm.gz
> >
> > title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.17-r8
> > root (hd0,0)
> > kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hda3
> >
> > title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.17-r8 (rescue)
> > root(hd0,0)
> > kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hda3
> init=/bin/bb
> >
> > I used grub-install /dev/hda with no errors. I've played
> around with the
> > "root=" entry, but to no avail - not sure I'm understanding this
> one...
> >
> > The kernel image appears to be valid, with no typos in filename/grub
> > entries.
> >
> > Any ideas? Seems that the kernel begins to load, but can't mount
> the root
> > filesystem?
> >
> > Thank-you for any pointers.
> >
> >
> > --
> >
There are also about 1000 posts about this on the forums and on the
"installing Gentoo" forum there is a specific thread on Grub errors and
how to deal with each one.
George
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