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Jon M wrote: |
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> Hey everyone, |
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> I'm new to Gentoo, but not to Linux. For some reason I seem to be |
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> struggling to get it booted after installing. Basically my setup is I |
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> have 3 partitions as follows: /dev/hda1 (32MB EXT3) used as /boot. |
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> /dev/hda2 (512MB) for swap, and the rest is on /dev/hda3 (ReiserFS). |
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> The contents of my /boot/grub/grub.conf is as follows: |
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> default 0 |
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> timeout 30 |
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> splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz |
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> title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.17-r8 |
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> root (hd0,0) |
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> kernel /kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hda3 |
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> Everything look normal so far? Well when I reboot, and select Gentoo |
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> on the GRUB list, it starts to load and then I get the following error: |
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> VFS: Cannot open root device "hda3" or unknown-block(0,0) |
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> Please append a correct "root=" boot option |
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> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on |
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> unknown-block(0,0) |
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> Any help anyone could provide would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in |
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> advance! |
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Hello! here is my grub.conf in order to compare, the only thing that i |
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notice is missing is the initrd line, i am no Linux expert either so |
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maybe that is not a must have. Anyway, my machine works, so i hope you |
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can comparte this file to yours and find out whats missing, hope it helps. |
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default 0 |
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timeout 30 |
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splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz |
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title=Gentoo Linux |
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root (hd0,0) |
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kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.17-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 |
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init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda3 |
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initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.17-gentoo-r5 |
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