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From: Andrew Frink <andrew.frink@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block(0,0)
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:58:48
Message-Id: 8146fc8a0608181054n68b34919h7d28bd0ea3d654b1@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block(0,0) by "Rafael Fernández López"
1 Rafael,
2 Did you compile in support for your IDE "controller"?
3 Andrew
4
5
6 On 8/18/06, Rafael Fernández López <info@××××××××××××××××××.com> wrote:
7 >
8 > Hi,
9 >
10 > I've googled and I haven't got any successfull results. I've my hard disk
11 > as follows:
12 >
13 > /dev/hda1 - ext2 (here will go /boot)
14 > /dev/hda2 - swap
15 > /dev/hda3 - ext3 (here will go /)
16 >
17 > I've compiled gentoo-sources with NO genkernel, but manually. I've no
18 > filesystem as modules, everything is included in kernel (as asterisk (*)).
19 >
20 > I am getting the next error when booting:
21 >
22 > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown
23 > block(0,0)
24 >
25 > And my bootloader is grub, here is grub.conf:
26 >
27 > default 0
28 > hiddenmenu
29 > timeout 5
30 >
31 > title=Gentoo GNU/Linux
32 > root (hd0,0)
33 > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.17-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/hda3
34 >
35 > I can't figure out what's going wrong... because I think that I don't need
36 > initram because I've nothing compiled as a module.
37 >
38 > Thank you very much,
39 > Rafael Fernández López.
40 >
41 > --
42 > "A la vista de suficientes ojos todos los errores resultan evidentes" -
43 > Linus Torvalds
44 >
45 > --
46 > gentoo-user@g.o mailing list
47 >
48 >

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Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block(0,0) "Rafael Fernández López" <info@××××××××××××××××××.com>