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From: German <gentgerman@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] EFI install ( continum) [ system hangs at boot ]
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 12:49:31
Message-Id: 20150227074920.e72768b12943ab9b8c1a8d44@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] EFI install ( continum) [ system hangs at boot ] by Neil Bothwick
1 On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 12:12:24 +0000
2 Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
3
4 > On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 06:53:32 -0500, German wrote:
5 >
6 > > Ok gentooers. I did manage to install gentoo on EFI, it boots, however
7 > > hangs at "Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
8 > > unknown-block ( 0,0)"
9 > >
10 > > Does anyone have an idea what is going on?
11 >
12 > The kernel cannot find the block device containing your root filesystem.
13 > Either you have given the wrong root= option to the kernel
14
15 Are you talking about this?
16
17 "UEFI does not pass kernel parameters to the kernel during normal boot, so you need to hardcode them via CONFIG_CMDLINE. Example for the root partition on /dev/sda2:
18 KERNEL Enable built-in kernel parameters
19
20 Processor type and features --->
21 [*] Built-in kernel command line
22 (root=/dev/sda2)"
23
24
25 or you have
26 > not compiled in the driver your your hard disk driver.
27 >
28 >
29 > --
30 > Neil Bothwick
31 >
32 > I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.
33
34
35 --
36 German <gentgerman@×××××.com>

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Re: [gentoo-user] EFI install ( continum) [ system hangs at boot ] Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>