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From: Uwe Thiem <uwix@××××.na>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] problem with 2 partition installation from gentoo minimal system
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:44:07
Message-Id: 200803261944.00956.uwix@iway.na
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] problem with 2 partition installation from gentoo minimal system by Fei Liu
1 On Wednesday 26 March 2008, Fei Liu wrote:
2 > Hello Group, I spend a whole day trying to get this to work. Here
3 > is my setup
4 >
5 > /dev/sda1 / ext3 noatime
6 > 0 1 /dev/sda2 swap
7 >
8 > grub is installed using the 'root (hd0,0)' and 'setup (hd0)', no
9 > problem.
10 >
11 > emerge kernel-sources worked fine.
12 >
13 > However everytime the system boots, it reports the VFS panic (no
14 > root system found problem). The kernel has built in ext2 and ext3
15 > support. The error hint is to supply root option during boot, but
16 > my boot command is this
17 > kernel /boot/kernel root=/dev/sda1
18
19 Please post your whole grub config.
20
21 Uwe
22
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