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From: Roger Mason <rmason@×××××××.ca>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New to Gentoo. Having trouble getting it started for the first time
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 21:03:13
Message-Id: y65wt6310js.fsf@minnie.esd.mun.ca
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] New to Gentoo. Having trouble getting it started for the first time by Jon M
1 Jon M <gentoo@××××××××.net> writes:
2
3 > I'm new to Gentoo, but not to Linux. For some reason I seem to be
4 > struggling to get it booted after installing. Basically my setup is I
5 > have 3 partitions as follows: /dev/hda1 (32MB EXT3) used as
6 > /boot. /dev/hda2 (512MB) for swap, and the rest is on /dev/hda3
7 > (ReiserFS).
8 >
9 > The contents of my /boot/grub/grub.conf is as follows:
10 >
11 > default 0
12 > timeout 30
13 > splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
14 >
15 > title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.17-r8
16 > root (hd0,0)
17 > kernel /kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hda3
18 >
19 > Everything look normal so far? Well when I reboot, and select Gentoo
20 > on the GRUB list, it starts to load and then I get the following error:
21 >
22 > VFS: Cannot open root device "hda3" or unknown-block(0,0)
23 > Please append a correct "root=" boot option
24 > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
25 > unknown-block(0,0)
26
27 Did you build ReiserFS into the kernel? i.e. not as a module.
28
29 Roger Mason
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