Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Dale <dalek1967@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] can't boot, "block device is not a valid root device"
Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:46:40
Message-Id: 48C2EC2A.9070700@bellsouth.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] can't boot, "block device is not a valid root device" by Tamer Higazi
1 Tamer Higazi wrote:
2 > Hi people,
3 > I have installed the latest gentoo linux distribution and I don't know
4 > what I am missing in my installation, specially the last gentoo
5 > installation worked for me fine.
6 >
7 > At booting I recive the error message:
8 >
9 > "Block device /dev/sda5 is not a valid root device."
10 >
11 > Hard disk is a SATA one, with a Core2Duo machine.
12 >
13 >
14 > What am I doing wrong?
15 >
16 > for any help solving my problem, I would thank you kindly.
17 >
18 >
19 > Tamer
20 >
21 >
22 > content of my fstab and grub.conf:
23 > http://rafb.net/p/Z9WNgO61.html
24 >
25 >
26 > content of lspci:
27 > http://rafb.net/p/VOtr9x33.html
28 >
29 >
30 >
31
32 Did you compile in the kernel the drivers for your chipset? Not as
33 modules but in the kernel, a Y not a M.
34
35 Dale
36
37 :-) :-)