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From: Billy Holmes <billy@××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.22-r9 installation problems
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:52:25
Message-Id: 474266AF.9080807@gonoph.net
In Reply to: Fwd: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.22-r9 installation problems by Jeff Cranmer
1 Jeff Cranmer wrote:
2 > The kernel now finds the drive, but for some reason puts a little 8MB drive at
3 > sda, and populates the 'real' 250MB drive at sdb, so the kernel still panics
4 > (probably due to fstab wanting to see the main drive at sda, not sdb).
5 >
6
7 that's very odd that there is a sda drive. Perhaps sda is a pen drive
8 that you have installed? a USB drive?
9
10 you can always change your boot options in grub.
11
12 at the grub prompt, hit [e]dit, select the line which has the "kernel"
13 line, move the cursor to the end, and change root=/dev/sda1 to /dev/sdb1
14
15 hit [b]oot
16
17 sit back and smile.
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