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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HrMgl-0001Cn-L1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 23:25:48 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4ONOTuu015159; Thu, 24 May 2007 23:24:29 GMT Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4ONJjdA009339 for ; Thu, 24 May 2007 23:19:46 GMT Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 466442076A4 for ; Fri, 25 May 2007 01:19:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3758F207685 for ; Fri, 25 May 2007 01:19:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: from energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de (account wevah [139.174.197.94] verified) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.9) with ESMTPSA id 23177533 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 25 May 2007 01:19:45 +0200 From: "Hemmann, Volker Armin" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 01:19:42 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: In-Reply-To: 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200705250119.42867.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V4.7 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: 4d5b3750-0424-4749-a21a-c91d4068fde7 X-Archives-Hash: 3da345521eae4d47902333033b9a073c On Freitag, 25. Mai 2007, Denis wrote: > This is the first time ever that I ended up with an unbootable kernel > after a new install, and I have no idea where to start. This is a > fresh install of Gentoo 2007.0 minimal CD stage 3, using the x86 quick > install guide. > > Here's the error I get at boot while the kernel is loading its device > drivers: > > VFS: Cannot open root device "sda3" or unknown-block(0,0) > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on > unknown-block(0,0) > > I am using grub, with conf file just like in the install guide (I > happened to use the same file system set-up): > > title=Gentoo > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/kernel root=/dev/sda3 > > I have a SATA drive in my system, which seems to get loaded fine by > the kernel, at least from what I can tell - there seem to be no error > messages to that effect. > > I suppose I could do a genkernel, but I'd like to be able to tell > where I went wrong with my config... Where do I start looking for > this? like copying the relevant parts of dmesg for us to see? maybe it is a missing sata-driver, missing scsi-disk support? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list