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Am Donnerstag 21 Januar 2010 19:08:53 schrieb Valmor de Almeida: |
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> I am trying to boot gentoo from an external USB HDD. I am getting the |
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> error message: |
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> VFS: Cannot open root device "sda3" or unknown-block(2,0) |
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> Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available |
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> partitions: |
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> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on |
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> unknown-block(2,0) |
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USB storage driver in the kernel? If not, compile it in, together with |
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everything needed for USB. SCSI disk driver should also be compiled in. |
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If yes, lookup the list archive a couple of weeks back, somebody mentioned a |
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boot option to delay booting to give the kernel some time to discover USB |
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devices. |
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HTH... |
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Dirk |
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