Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: bill and joe <sweetangelhsd@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] boot problem
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 14:16:04
Message-Id: 000e01c21956$ecfed240$0b0aa8c0@earthlink.net
1 hello again thank you for all your help so far. ok on to the matter at hand first this is going to be long so you might want to grab something to drink and eat just put it on my account. my computer is the following:
2 custom built
3 asus p4e-t motherboard
4 intel p-4 1.6
5 256k rambus ram
6 adaptec 19160 card
7 maxtor 18 gig scsi hard drive
8 ide cdrw
9 1.44 floppy
10 realtec 8139 networkcard
11 i have the harddrive setup as
12 sda1=boot=ext2
13 sda2=swap=swap
14 sda3=root=xfs
15 sda start end blocks id boot
16 1 1 391 3140676 83 *
17 2 392 423 257040 82
18 3 424 2232 14530792+ 83
19 disk 255heads 63sectors 2232 cylinders
20 units=cylinders of 16065*512 bytes
21 do a v and get 62 unallocated sectors not sure why
22 stage 3 tarball used
23 /etc/make.conf
24 used pentium exclusive
25 chost cflags cxxflags removed #
26
27 #use=""
28 emerge sys-kernel/xfs-sources
29 kernel settings
30 the following is *
31 prompt for development
32 enable loadable module support
33 set version info
34 kernel module loader
35 used pentium 4
36 machine check exception
37 off high memory support
38 3gb user address space size
39 networking-pci support-support for hot plug-system vipc-pcmcia off-any pci access-pci device name-sysct support-power management-elf kernel core-kernel support for aiout elf and misc binaries-pnp-normal pc floppy-pnp bios-ram disk support-packet socket-4096default ram-unix domain socket-intial ram disk-tcpip network-ip multicasting-ata/ide/mfm/r11/support-enhanced ide-enhanced ide-include ide ata2 disk support-use multi-mode by default-include ide cdrom and floppy-generic pci ide chipset support-sharing pci-use pci dma-enable dma only-intel p2xn chipset-p2x tuning-scsi support-scsidisk-enable extra checks-probe all luns verbose scsi error-networkk device-ethernet 10or100-realtec rtl8129-dev agpgart-intel i850-direct rendering xfree 86-posix access-kernel automounter ver4-virtual memory-iso9660-proc file system-devfile system-second extended fs support-sgi xfs-xfsquota-vga text console-creative 1371-support for usb-usbc1-grsecurty low (for now)
40 modules are
41 parallell port-pc style hardware-scsi emulation support-scsi cdrom-scsi generic support-dummy net driver-input core-keyboard&mouse-bus mouse-microsoft bus mouse-ntfs file system
42
43 the /etc/fstab is
44 boot=sda1=ext2
45 root=sda3=xfs
46 swap=sda2=swap
47 left the rest of the unchanged
48
49 grub
50 root (hd0,0)
51 setup (hd0)
52 quit
53
54 boot grub menu.lst l as in look
55
56 default 0
57 timeout 30
58 spashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
59 title=Joseph's Gentoo (i know my be a little on the vain side)
60 root(hd0,0)
61 kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/sda3
62
63 grub loaded
64 kernel started
65 and got vfs cannot open root device sda3
66 append a correct root
67 unable to mount root fs on 0803
68 ok go ahead and tell me how bad i messed up thank you so much joe