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From: Robin Atwood <robin.atwood@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device "hda6" or unknown-block(3,6)
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 08:51:24
Message-Id: 200612271545.05432.robin.atwood@attglobal.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device "hda6" or unknown-block(3,6) by Mick
1 On Wednesday 27 December 2006 01:38, Mick wrote:
2 > On Tuesday 26 December 2006 18:26, Bruce Burden wrote:
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4 > You can use tab auto-completion in grub to see what drives and partitions are
5 > identified as.
6 >
7 > > Also, I need to know how to "change" the Windows partition so that
8 > > Windows believe it is the first disk, otherwise it will not boot.
9 >
10 > That's right, it won't. You need the map command in your grub.conf:
11 >
12 > map (hd0) (hd1)
13 > map (hd1) (hd0)
14 >
15 > WinXP will now think that it is on the first disk and it will boot happily.
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17 I recently had that message because I changed a partition's file system to ext3
18 and ext3 was neither compiled into the kernel nor in the initrd file. In this case,
19 I think the USB Mass Storage module will need to be available plus the SCSI support.
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21 HTH
22 -Robin.
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Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device "hda6" or unknown-block(3,6) Luca Botti <luca.botti.gentoo@×××××.com>