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From: frank <sdoma@××××××××.cz>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem booting after reinstall
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 10:46:21
Message-Id: 1156070003.3768.12.camel@livecd.gentoo
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Problem booting after reinstall by frank
1 Well, a little typo:
2
3 extend / ... is ext3
4
5 Frank
6
7 On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 10:30 +0000, frank wrote:
8 > Hi all,
9 >
10 > I've decided to reinstall my system to a stable one (I used ~x86
11 > before).
12 >
13 > To prepare the disk I've wiped out all of / except /home and all
14 > of /boot.
15 >
16 > Th installation (according to the handbook) went smoothly.
17 >
18 > The new kernel starts up and then I get an VFS error saying that there
19 > is an invalid boot option root= ... and panics.
20 >
21 > /boot on /dev/hda1 or (hd0,0) is ext2, / on /dev/hda3 or (hd0,2)
22 >
23 > Here is my menu.lst:
24 >
25 > default 0
26 > timeout 30
27 >
28 > title=Initial
29 > root (hd0,0)
30 > kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r4_initial root=/dev/hda3
31 >
32 > I've set up grub this way:
33 > grub> root (hd0,0)
34 > grub> setup (hd0)
35 > grub quit
36 >
37 > The kernel is configured for ext2 and ext3 filesystems.
38 >
39 > Has anyone an Idea? I don't have further :(
40 >
41 > Thanks in advance
42 > Frank
43 >
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