From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GEsd1-0007Yi-VB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 19:06:36 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7KJ4HZA010726; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 19:04:17 GMT Received: from av2.karneval.cz (av2.karneval.cz [81.27.192.122]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7KJ2EDX026119 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 19:02:14 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by av2.karneval.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BF38272C36 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 21:02:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: from av2.karneval.cz ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (av2 [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 05192-05-2 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 21:02:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.karneval.cz (mx1.karneval.cz [81.27.192.53]) by av2.karneval.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id B97EA272ADF for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 21:02:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ip-89-102-168-6.karneval.cz (ip-89-102-168-6.karneval.cz [89.102.168.6]) by mail.karneval.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1E602DE340 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 21:02:13 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem booting after reinstall From: frank To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: <1156069815.3768.10.camel@livecd.gentoo> <1156072044.2814.3.camel@livecd.gentoo> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 18:54:54 +0000 Message-Id: <1156100094.2804.0.camel@livecd.gentoo> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 X-Virus-Scanned: by karneval.cz Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k7KJ4HZe010726 X-Archives-Salt: 419a7013-ba82-4900-94e3-acc20054cfec X-Archives-Hash: 05acd97f821b1f914995013c2d5c0689 Right, fstab still isn't relevant here. It is a grub/kernel problem. Regards Frank On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 13:58 +0200, Mirek Dvo=F8=E1k wrote: > what about fstab? > Mirek >=20 > 2006/8/20, frank : > Just a bit more info, I've rebooted into the new system. > Here's the > whole message: > =20 > ... > VFS: Cannot open root device "hda3" or unknown-block(0,0) > Please append a correct "root=3D" boot option=20 > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on > unknown-block(0,0) > =20 > =20 > =20 > On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 10:30 +0000, frank wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've decided to reinstall my system to a stable one (I used > ~x86=20 > > before). > > > > To prepare the disk I've wiped out all of / except /home and > all > > of /boot. > > > > Th installation (according to the handbook) went smoothly. > > > > The new kernel starts up and then I get an VFS error saying > that there=20 > > is an invalid boot option root=3D ... and panics. > > > > /boot on /dev/hda1 or (hd0,0) is ext2, / on /dev/hda3 or > (hd0,2) > > > > Here is my menu.lst: > > > > default 0 > > timeout 30 > > > > title=3DInitial > > root (hd0,0) > > kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r4_initial root=3D/dev/hda3 > > > > I've set up grub this way: > > grub> root (hd0,0) > > grub> setup (hd0) > > grub quit > > > > The kernel is configured for ext2 and ext3 filesystems. > > > > Has anyone an Idea? I don't have further :( > > > > Thanks in advance > > Frank > > > =20 > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > =20 >=20 --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list