I know, I know, I know. There are like 20 differents posts in the Forums and Google.

However, NONE of the answers work for me. I don't know much about hardware but 
honestly, I just can't make my new Gentoo install boot right.

After 2 days tryin different compilings, info for OldWorld powerbooks, etc, only today morning 
I could go through all the processes listed in the Handbook and finished -I suppossed- the 
installation.

BUT, when using BootX, and booting into Gentoo... 

VFS: Cannot open root device "hda10" or unknown block (o,o) Please append a correct "root" 
boot option .
Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs. 


My fstab is

/dev/hda10                    /                          ext3            noatime         0 1
/dev/hda9                      none                  swap         sw                   0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0  /mnt/cdrom       iso9660    noauto,user  0 0

none                              /proc                  proc           defaults          0 0
/dev/hda11                   /home                ext3           defaults           0  0

tmpfs                             /dev/shm           tmpfs         defaults          0 0


I remember I followed ALL as directed in the Handbook (except for the a couple of OldWorld 
stuff I had to adapt for myself but nothing regarding kernel or configs)

Could you please give an Idea? 

I had a similar problem when I tried to use a precompiled 2.6.x kernel from Ben when I used 
Debian (no problems at all with 2.4.18), so I thought that if I will end up compiling why not 
using Gentoo instead?  :(   Now, I am about going back to Debian, but after spending so 
much time in a Gentoo ppc oldwolrd box... I would feel even more frustrated.


MHZ

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