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From: Dale <teendale@×××××××××××××.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 19:07:41
Message-Id: 44E60EB3.7070501@vista-express.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 Fernández López wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > I've googled and I haven't got any successfull results. I've my hard disk
5 > as follows:
6 >
7 > /dev/hda1 - ext2 (here will go /boot)
8 > /dev/hda2 - swap
9 > /dev/hda3 - ext3 (here will go /)
10 >
11 > I've compiled gentoo-sources with NO genkernel, but manually. I've no
12 > filesystem as modules, everything is included in kernel (as asterisk (*)).
13 >
14 > I am getting the next error when booting:
15 >
16 > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown
17 > block(0,0)
18 >
19 > And my bootloader is grub, here is grub.conf:
20 >
21 > default 0
22 > hiddenmenu
23 > timeout 5
24 >
25 > title=Gentoo GNU/Linux
26 > root (hd0,0)
27 > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.17-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/hda3
28 >
29 > I can't figure out what's going wrong... because I think that I don't need
30 > initram because I've nothing compiled as a module.
31 >
32 > Thank you very much,
33 > Rafael Fernández López.
34 >
35 >
36
37 What ever file system you use for /boot and for / must be included IN
38 the kernel, not as modules. It has to be able to read it for it to load
39 the modules.
40
41 That should help.
42
43 Dale
44
45 :-) :-)
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