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 1GieRX-0000So-63 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 22:01:47 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kAALv8tR001177; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 21:57:08 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 kAALrFxW015284 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 21:53:15 GMT Received: from [192.168.0.17] (p54B2D878.dip.t-dialin.net [84.178.216.120]) by ulm114.server4you.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66BC720C193 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 22:53:15 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4554F4CD.5040605@smash-net.org> Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 22:53:17 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Norman_Rie=DF?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061110) 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> <4554F2DE.6090801@smash-net.org> In-Reply-To: <4554F2DE.6090801@smash-net.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id kAALv8tt001177 X-Archives-Salt: 84e5c326-bdd6-4ee9-83ab-aa6dae91b640 X-Archives-Hash: e4f4ed87cee0aa2249e2a19c6fcb64cd Norman Rie=DF schrieb: > Jon M wrote: > =20 >> 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=3D(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz >> >> title=3DGentoo Linux 2.6.17-r8 >> root (hd0,0) >> kernel /kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 root=3D/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=3D" 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! >> =20 > Please try this: > > intead of > kernel /kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 root=3D/dev/hda3 > > give > kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 root=3D/dev/hda3 > > =20 Or i should simply read better... sorry. Forget the rubbish i wrote... --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list