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

[Jon M <gentoo@net-xero.net>]

Richard Fish wrote:
> On 11/10/06, Jon M <gentoo@net-xero.net> wrote:
>> The contents of my /boot/grub/grub.conf is as follows:
> 
> [snip]
> 
>> Everything look normal so far?
> 
> Yep.
> 
>> VFS: Cannot open root device "hda3" or unknown-block(0,0)
> 
> This is not a problem with your grub configuration.  The
> "unknown-block(0,0)" tells me that the kernel cannot find a device for
> hda3.  You probably missed either the device driver needed for your
> IDE chipset, or IDE hard drive support in your kernel configuration.
> 
> If you need help figuring out what you need here, post the outputs of:
> 
> grep -v -e "^#" -e "^$" /usr/src/linux/.config
> lspci -v
> 
> HTH,
> -Richard

Hi Richard,

I think you are correct.  I just scanned through the output of those two 
commands and I believe I may have missed the IDE chipset.  I'm going to 
try enabling it and see if that helps.

As for the other two responses, I did compile ReiserFS directly into the 
kernel, and also tried changing the kernel line in grub.conf to read 
kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hda3 with little success.

Hopefully this will work though.

Thanks again!
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