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From: frank <sdoma@××××××××.cz>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED Problem booting after reinstall
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 07:02:42
Message-Id: 1156229460.2811.7.camel@livecd.gentoo
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Problem booting after reinstall by frank
1 Hi,
2
3 I solved the problem using the vanilla kernel. May be some devel reads
4 this list. Here Is my (relevant configuration)
5
6 CPU: Celeron M
7 00:00.0 Host bridge: SIS [SiS] 661FX/M661FX/M661MX Host (rev 11)
8 00:02.1 SMBus: SIS [SiS] SiS961/2 SMBus Controller
9 00:02.5 IDE interface: SIS [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
10
11 I attach the .config used.
12
13 Thanks for your time
14 Frank
15
16 On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 10:30 +0000, frank wrote:
17 > Hi all,
18 >
19 > I've decided to reinstall my system to a stable one (I used ~x86
20 > before).
21 >
22 > To prepare the disk I've wiped out all of / except /home and all
23 > of /boot.
24 >
25 > Th installation (according to the handbook) went smoothly.
26 >
27 > The new kernel starts up and then I get an VFS error saying that there
28 > is an invalid boot option root= ... and panics.
29 >
30 > /boot on /dev/hda1 or (hd0,0) is ext2, / on /dev/hda3 or (hd0,2)
31 >
32 > Here is my menu.lst:
33 >
34 > default 0
35 > timeout 30
36 >
37 > title=Initial
38 > root (hd0,0)
39 > kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r4_initial root=/dev/hda3
40 >
41 > I've set up grub this way:
42 > grub> root (hd0,0)
43 > grub> setup (hd0)
44 > grub quit
45 >
46 > The kernel is configured for ext2 and ext3 filesystems.
47 >
48 > Has anyone an Idea? I don't have further :(
49 >
50 > Thanks in advance
51 > Frank
52 >

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Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED Problem booting after reinstall "Rafael Fernández López" <info@××××××××××××××××××.com>