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 1Gid7T-0000ut-Eb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 20:36:59 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kAAKYPPW007833; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 20:34:25 GMT Received: from mail.net-xero.net (mail.net-xero.com [66.29.75.80] (may be forged)) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kAAKWIvb005554 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 20:32:19 GMT Received: (qmail 10234 invoked from network); 10 Nov 2006 20:32:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.8.0.10?) (10.8.0.10) by mail.net-xero.net with SMTP; 10 Nov 2006 20:32:17 -0000 Message-ID: <4554E1D2.20902@net-xero.net> Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 15:32:18 -0500 From: Jon M User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Macintosh/20061025) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] New to Gentoo. Having trouble getting it started for the first time Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 5f692835-95d4-4f8f-b022-8def876d668b X-Archives-Hash: fdca8a2b2d5b7ee58cf5a9fd0b70e12a Hey everyone, I'm new to Gentoo, but not to Linux. For some reason I seem to be struggling to get it booted after installing. Basically my setup is I have 3 partitions as follows: /dev/hda1 (32MB EXT3) used as /boot. /dev/hda2 (512MB) for swap, and the rest is on /dev/hda3 (ReiserFS). The contents of my /boot/grub/grub.conf is as follows: default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.17-r8 root (hd0,0) kernel /kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hda3 Everything look normal so far? Well when I reboot, and select Gentoo on the GRUB list, it starts to load and then I get the following error: VFS: Cannot open root device "hda3" 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) Any help anyone could provide would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list