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From: "Norman Rieß" <norman@×××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New to Gentoo. Having trouble getting it started for the first time
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 21:49:44
Message-Id: 4554F2DE.6090801@smash-net.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] New to Gentoo. Having trouble getting it started for the first time by Jon M
1 Jon M wrote:
2 > Hey everyone,
3 >
4 > I'm new to Gentoo, but not to Linux. For some reason I seem to be
5 > struggling to get it booted after installing. Basically my setup is I
6 > have 3 partitions as follows: /dev/hda1 (32MB EXT3) used as /boot.
7 > /dev/hda2 (512MB) for swap, and the rest is on /dev/hda3 (ReiserFS).
8 >
9 > The contents of my /boot/grub/grub.conf is as follows:
10 >
11 > default 0
12 > timeout 30
13 > splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
14 >
15 > title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.17-r8
16 > root (hd0,0)
17 > kernel /kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hda3
18 >
19 > Everything look normal so far? Well when I reboot, and select Gentoo
20 > on the GRUB list, it starts to load and then I get the following error:
21 >
22 > VFS: Cannot open root device "hda3" or unknown-block(0,0)
23 > Please append a correct "root=" boot option
24 > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
25 > unknown-block(0,0)
26 >
27 >
28 > Any help anyone could provide would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in
29 > advance!
30 Please try this:
31
32 intead of
33 kernel /kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hda3
34
35 give
36 kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hda3
37
38 --
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Re: [gentoo-user] New to Gentoo. Having trouble getting it started for the first time "Norman Rieß" <norman@×××××××××.org>