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Hello, |
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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 unknown-block(2,0) |
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I am assuming that the device will be named /dev/sda since there is no |
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other HDD on the system. The message above does not list any available |
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partitions. |
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Any thoughts? |
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Here is the info from fdisk on this drive (it is a new 4096-byte sector drive): |
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Disk /dev/sdb: 240.1 GB, 240057409536 |
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255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 29185 cylinders |
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Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes |
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Disk identifier: 0x0c7786a9 |
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Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System |
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/dev/sdb1 * 1 26 208813+ 83 Linux |
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/dev/sdb2 27 158 1060290 82 Linux |
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swap / Solaris |
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/dev/sdb3 159 2117 15735667+ 83 Linux |
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/dev/sdb4 2118 29185 217423710 8e Linux LVM |
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Thanks, |
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Valmor |