Re: [gentoo-dev] 1.0-rc4 pre 2 install problems

[<drobbins@gentoo.org>]

On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 10:07:20AM -0800, Tze John Tang wrote:
> hello,
> 
> I attempted to install gentoo from the cd last night.  I had no
> problems at all creating the base system, only when I was trying to
> boot it.  I get a kernel panic as it tries to mount the root
> filesystem (08:02).
> 
> I only have scsi drives in my system.  I thought that scsi drivers
> may not be compiled into the default kernel image, so I recompiled
> the kernel (2.4.1-pre8) which is on the pre-2 cd, with those drivers.
> 
> When I rebooted, all my scsi devices were detected, but I then got
> another kernel panic on mounting the root fs.  
> 
> My root partition is reiserfs, and I think the kernel does not know
> how to mount it.  My question is, is reiserfs in 2.4.1-pre8, or do I
> have to get some patch?  I configured using the menuconfig option,
> but I did not see reiserfs in the list.

Reiserfs is enabled in our default kernel.  If you compile your own
kernel, you need to make sure that you enable it too.  It's located
under the "filesystems" category under menuconfig, and is about 3 or
4 items down on the list.  Of course, make sure that it's compiled in
to the kernel rather than being installed as a module.

Also, your problem could be related to you specifying the wrong
"root=/dev/hd??" option to GRUB.  You could double-check this as well.

Best Regards,

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Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc.