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 1GjcM6-00032O-Qn for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 14:00:11 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kADDtcEr019806; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:55:38 GMT Received: from lucifer.oficina (smtp.akyasociados.com.ar [200.68.121.201]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kADDq50s021799 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:52:06 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lucifer.oficina (8.13.1/8.12.10) with ESMTP id kADDq6hD074765 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 10:52:06 -0300 (ART) (envelope-from rafael@akyasociados.com.ar) Received: from lucifer.oficina ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (lucifer.oficina [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 72776-14 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 10:51:53 -0300 (ART) Received: from [192.168.1.182] (ba-gw.clientsupport.com [200.61.185.209] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by lucifer.oficina (8.13.1/8.12.10) with ESMTP id kADDpowu074740 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 10:51:51 -0300 (ART) (envelope-from rafael@akyasociados.com.ar) Message-ID: <45584E47.5050207@akyasociados.com.ar> Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 10:51:51 +0000 From: Rafael Barrera Oro User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20060131) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at akyasociados.com.ar X-Archives-Salt: d28ab47d-d45b-4138-abfc-6559c7edee17 X-Archives-Hash: f2a27020ff42ff872eba30b03c94f8f7 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! Hello! here is my grub.conf in order to compare, the only thing that i notice is missing is the initrd line, i am no Linux expert either so maybe that is not a must have. Anyway, my machine works, so i hope you can comparte this file to yours and find out whats missing, hope it helps. default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=Gentoo Linux root (hd0,0) kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.17-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda3 initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.17-gentoo-r5 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list