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Hi people, |
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I have installed the latest gentoo linux distribution and I don't know |
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what I am missing in my installation, specially the last gentoo |
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installation worked for me fine. |
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At booting I recive the error message: |
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"Block device /dev/sda5 is not a valid root device." |
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Hard disk is a SATA one, with a Core2Duo machine. |
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What am I doing wrong? |
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for any help solving my problem, I would thank you kindly. |
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Tamer |
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content of my fstab: |
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# /etc/fstab: static file system information. |
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# |
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# noatime turns off atimes for increased performance (atimes normally |
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aren't |
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# needed; notail increases performance of ReiserFS (at the expense of |
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storage |
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# efficiency). It's safe to drop the noatime options if you want and to |
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# switch between notail / tail freely. |
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# |
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# The root filesystem should have a pass number of either 0 or 1. |
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# All other filesystems should have a pass number of 0 or greater than 1. |
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# |
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# See the manpage fstab(5) for more information. |
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# |
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# <fs> <mountpoint> <type> <opts> |
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<dump/pass> |
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# NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts. |
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/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2 |
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/dev/sda5 / ext3 noatime 0 1 |
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/dev/sda6 /opt ext3 noatime 0 1 |
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/dev/sda7 /usr/local ext3 noatime 0 1 |
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/dev/sda8 /home ext3 noatime 0 1 |
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/dev/sda9 none swap sw 0 0 |
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/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom audo noauto,ro 0 0 |
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#/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0 |
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# glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for |
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# POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink). |
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# (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will |
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# use almost no memory if not populated with files) |
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shm /dev/shm tmpfs |
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nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 |
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and grub.conf: |
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grub.conf: |
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# This is a sample grub.conf for use with Genkernel, per the Gentoo |
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handbook |
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# |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=10#doc_chap2 |
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# If you are not using Genkernel and you need help creating this file, you |
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# should consult the handbook. Alternatively, consult the |
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grub.conf.sample that |
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# is included with the Grub documentation. |
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default 0 |
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timeout 30 |
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title Gentoo Linux 2.6.25-r7 |
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root (hd0,0) |
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kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.25-gentoo-r7 root=/dev/ram0 |
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init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sda5 |
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initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.25-gentoo-r7 |
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