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From: Fei Liu <feiliu4@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: problem with 2 partition installation from gentoo minimal system
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:24:27
Message-Id: 47EAF74C.9030908@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: problem with 2 partition installation from gentoo minimal system by Fei Liu
1 > Here is the complete grub.conf file:
2 > more /boot/grub/grub.conf
3 > default 0
4 > timeout 8
5 > gfxmenu (hd0,0)/boot/message
6 >
7 > title 2.6.24.4-default
8 > root (hd0,0)
9 > kernel /boot/kernel root=/dev/sda1 splash=silent showopts
10 >
11 > /etc/fstab:
12 > #/dev/BOOT /boot ext2
13 > noauto,noatime 1 2
14 > /dev/sda1 / ext3
15 > noatime 0 1
16 > /dev/sda2 none swap
17 > sw 0 0
18 > #/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom audo
19 > noauto,ro 0 0
20 > #/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto
21 > noauto 0 0
22 >
23 > shm /dev/shm tmpfs
24 > nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0
25 >
26 > I am looking into the SCSI file system issue.
27 >
28 > Fei
29 >
30 Error messages:
31 ...
32 md: ... autorun DONE
33 VFS: Cannot open root device "sda1" or unknown-block(0,0)
34 Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available
35 partitions:
36 Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on
37 unknown-block(0,0)
38
39 There is one more thing, this is a vmware machine so the harddrive is a
40 scsi harddrive.
41
42 Fei
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