From: Glenn Enright <elinar@ihug.co.nz>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] grub on a SATA drive
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 21:18:30 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200511292118.30846.elinar@ihug.co.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1133246753.9739.7.camel@spok.local.sporn-it.com>
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 19:45, Heinz Sporn wrote:
<snip>
> > When I boot w/ the grub floppy I do:
> >
> > grub> root (hd0,1)
> > Fs is ext2, part type 0x83
> > grub> kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda6
> > [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x120, size 0x1463b31]
<snip>
> > ...VFS: Cannot open root device "sda6" or unknown
> > block (0,0)
> > Please append correct "root" boot option
> > Kernel Panic-not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs
> > on unknown block (0,0)
In your /boot dir there should be a symlink called /boot which is linked
to /boot! So when you have a seperate partition for your /boot area,
using /boot/vmlinuz will stay valid through the entire boot process. So then
your second line can read...
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda? ...
^^^
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-29 8:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-24 16:31 [gentoo-user] grub on a SATA drive maxim wexler
2005-11-24 18:22 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-11-24 20:26 ` Glenn Enright
2005-11-25 3:32 ` Petr Kocmid
2005-11-29 6:34 ` maxim wexler
2005-11-29 6:45 ` Heinz Sporn
2005-11-29 8:18 ` Glenn Enright [this message]
2005-11-29 9:50 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-11-29 9:35 ` Chris Boot
2005-11-29 19:04 ` maxim wexler
2005-11-29 9:48 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-11-29 19:26 ` maxim wexler
2005-11-29 20:32 ` Richard Fish
2005-11-30 16:39 ` maxim wexler
2005-11-30 16:58 ` Richard Fish
2005-12-01 0:21 ` maxim wexler
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