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 1GieFs-00004c-5B for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 21:49:44 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kAALlG5l027102; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 21:47:16 GMT Received: from ulm114.server4you.de (ulm114.server4you.de [62.75.202.190]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kAALj6pa031417 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 21:45:06 GMT Received: from [192.168.0.17] (p54B2D878.dip.t-dialin.net [84.178.216.120]) by ulm114.server4you.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C72520C0EE for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 22:45:00 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4554F2DE.6090801@smash-net.org> Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 22:45:02 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Norman_Rie=DF?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060930) 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: Re: [gentoo-user] New to Gentoo. Having trouble getting it started for the first time References: <4554E1D2.20902@net-xero.net> In-Reply-To: <4554E1D2.20902@net-xero.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4d998945-8670-406a-a744-23f01e08d99a X-Archives-Hash: a890787ab9a101ac07abaa84a592ba55 Jon M wrote: > 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! Please try this: intead of kernel /kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hda3 give kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hda3 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list