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On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 06:10:20PM -0300, mauricio hernàndez wrote: |
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> I know, I know, I know. There are like 20 differents posts in the Forums and Google. |
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> However, NONE of the answers work for me. I don't know much about hardware but |
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> honestly, I just can't make my new Gentoo install boot right. |
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> After 2 days tryin different compilings, info for OldWorld powerbooks, etc, only today morning |
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> I could go through all the processes listed in the Handbook and finished -I suppossed- the |
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> installation. |
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> BUT, when using BootX, and booting into Gentoo... |
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> VFS: Cannot open root device "hda10" or unknown block (o,o) Please append a correct "root" |
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> boot option . |
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> Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs. |
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Hi, |
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The root device need to be specified in the boot loader (otherwise, how |
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does Linux access the fstab :) ). |
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Double check your BootX config if everything specified correctly. |
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I don't know about BootX. |
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One thing you could try is to specify the root device manually as a |
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kernel arg when it boots: |
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linux root=/dev/hda10 |
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To see if there is no problem with hda10 itself. |
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Good luck, |
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David |
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David Bélanger |
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