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From: Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
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 20:56:10
Message-Id: 7573e9640611101250v6b452f7dhb8f12a4bbc3dbd3a@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] New to Gentoo. Having trouble getting it started for the first time by Jon M
1 On 11/10/06, Jon M <gentoo@××××××××.net> wrote:
2 > The contents of my /boot/grub/grub.conf is as follows:
3
4 [snip]
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6 > Everything look normal so far?
7
8 Yep.
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10 > VFS: Cannot open root device "hda3" or unknown-block(0,0)
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12 This is not a problem with your grub configuration. The
13 "unknown-block(0,0)" tells me that the kernel cannot find a device for
14 hda3. You probably missed either the device driver needed for your
15 IDE chipset, or IDE hard drive support in your kernel configuration.
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17 If you need help figuring out what you need here, post the outputs of:
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19 grep -v -e "^#" -e "^$" /usr/src/linux/.config
20 lspci -v
21
22 HTH,
23 -Richard
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