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Hi. I am installing Gentoo for the first time. |
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The installation goes off without a hitch until I try to reboot. First boot |
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from the hard drive hangs the machine hard with a rapidly repeating loader |
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error message -- either L 02 or GRUB repeating over and over again depending |
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upon which boot loader I install. I have several other Linux distros running |
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fine loaded on other drives (on rails) on this machine. |
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I asked for help on the gentoo users list first, but the suggestions I |
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received lacked insight and had me trying things at random. That didn't |
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work, and as a developer (on another project) just doesn't feel right to me. |
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I want to understand what's wrong, not just have the problem magically go |
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away. I followed your installation directions very carefully and went |
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through the (long) installation process twice -- starting over with |
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reformatting the drive. |
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When it boots from the hard drive I get "GRUB GRUB GRUB" and so forth. |
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Booting GRUB from floppy gets farther, but kernel panics when it tries to |
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mount root: |
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grub> kernel (hd0,0)/bzImage root=/dev/hda3 |
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grub> boot |
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... loads kernel and drivers ok ... |
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Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:03 |
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Here's my hard disk GRUB setup: |
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grub> root (hd0,0) |
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grub> setup (hd0) |
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And contents of /boot/grub/grub.conf: |
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default 0 |
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timeout 30 |
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splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz |
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title=Gentoo Linux |
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root (hd0,0) |
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kernel (hd0,0)/bzImage root=/dev/hda3 |
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Partitions: |
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/dev/hda1 100MB boot ext3 |
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/dev/hda2 512MB swap |
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/dev/hda3 4GB root reiserfs |
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There's nothing else on the drive. I physically swap out drives (on rails) |
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to boot the other distros. |
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Has ext3 and reiserfs and the other items mentioned in the install |
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instructions built into kernel (not modules). |
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It seems that I have not installed the boot loader correctly, but how could |
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I make the same mistake with both LILO and GRUB? I would suspect the drive |
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itself, but the partitions mount just fine when booting from CD. Is there |
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anything left to try besides installing on a completely different drive? |
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Insights? |
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Thanks, |
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Robin |
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