Re: [gentoo-user] Problem booting after reinstall

[frank]

Right, fstab still isn't relevant here. It is a grub/kernel problem.

Regards
Frank


On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 13:58 +0200, Mirek Dvoøák wrote:
> what about fstab?
> Mirek
>
> 2006/8/20, frank <sdoma@××××××××.cz>:
>         Just a bit more info, I've rebooted into the new system.
>         Here's the
>         whole message:
>
>         ...
>         VFS: Cannot open root device "hda3" or unknown-block(0,0)
>         Please append a correct "root=" boot option
>         Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
>         unknown-block(0,0)
>
>
>
>         On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 10:30 +0000, frank wrote:
>         > Hi all,
>         >
>         > I've decided to reinstall my system to a stable one (I used
>         ~x86
>         > before).
>         >
>         > To prepare the disk I've wiped out all of / except /home and
>         all
>         > of /boot.
>         >
>         > Th installation (according to the handbook) went smoothly.
>         >
>         > The new kernel starts up and then I get an VFS error saying
>         that there
>         > is an invalid boot option root= ... and panics.
>         >
>         > /boot on /dev/hda1 or (hd0,0) is ext2, / on /dev/hda3 or
>         (hd0,2)
>         >
>         > Here is my menu.lst:
>         >
>         > default 0
>         > timeout 30
>         >
>         > title=Initial
>         > root (hd0,0)
>         > kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r4_initial root=/dev/hda3
>         >
>         > I've set up grub this way:
>         > grub> root (hd0,0)
>         > grub> setup (hd0)
>         > grub quit
>         >
>         > The kernel is configured for ext2 and ext3 filesystems.
>         >
>         > Has anyone an Idea? I don't have further :(
>         >
>         > Thanks in advance
>         > Frank
>         >
>
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