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From: Luca Botti <luca.botti.gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device "hda6" or unknown-block(3,6)
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 01:11:58
Message-Id: 200612280207.42989.luca.botti.gentoo@gmail.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device "hda6" or unknown-block(3,6) by Robin Atwood
1 Funny. From kernel 2.6.18 on I receive this message when cold-booting my
2 (linux only) notebook.
3 On second try, it all works well.
4 Disk geometry and partitioning has not been changed. I guess a bug in kernel.
5
6
7 Alle Wednesday 27 December 2006 09:45, Robin Atwood ha scritto:
8 > On Wednesday 27 December 2006 01:38, Mick wrote:
9 > > On Tuesday 26 December 2006 18:26, Bruce Burden wrote:
10 > >
11 > > You can use tab auto-completion in grub to see what drives and partitions
12 > > are identified as.
13 > >
14 > > > Also, I need to know how to "change" the Windows partition so that
15 > > > Windows believe it is the first disk, otherwise it will not boot.
16 > >
17 > > That's right, it won't. You need the map command in your grub.conf:
18 > >
19 > > map (hd0) (hd1)
20 > > map (hd1) (hd0)
21 > >
22 > > WinXP will now think that it is on the first disk and it will boot
23 > > happily.
24 >
25 > I recently had that message because I changed a partition's file system to
26 > ext3 and ext3 was neither compiled into the kernel nor in the initrd file.
27 > In this case, I think the USB Mass Storage module will need to be available
28 > plus the SCSI support.
29 >
30 > HTH
31 > -Robin.
32 > --
33 > ------------------------------------------------------
34 > Robin Atwood
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