Re: [gentoo-user] New to Gentoo. Having trouble getting it started for the first time

["Norman Rieß" <norman@smash-net.org>]

Norman Rieß schrieb:
> 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
>
>   
Or i should simply read better... sorry.
Forget the rubbish i wrote...
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