[gentoo-user] Re: problem with 2 partition installation from gentoo minimal system

[Fei Liu <feiliu4@gmail.com>]

Fei Liu wrote:
> Hello Group, I spend a whole day trying to get this to work. Here is 
> my setup
>
> /dev/sda1             /             ext3           noatime          0 1
> /dev/sda2             swap     
> grub is installed using the 'root (hd0,0)' and 'setup (hd0)', no problem.
>
> emerge kernel-sources worked fine.
>
> However everytime the system boots, it reports the VFS panic (no root 
> system found problem). The kernel has built in ext2 and ext3 support. 
> The error hint is to supply root option during boot, but my boot 
> command is this
> kernel /boot/kernel root=/dev/sda1
>
> Is there something missing that I didn't think of that's causing the 
> failures? I followed the steps outlined here:
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-quickinstall.xml
>
> except I am using a 2 partition setup.
>
> Fei
>
Here is the complete grub.conf file:
more /boot/grub/grub.conf
default 0
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd0,0)/boot/message

title 2.6.24.4-default
    root (hd0,0)
    kernel /boot/kernel root=/dev/sda1 splash=silent showopts

/etc/fstab:
#/dev/BOOT              /boot           ext2            noauto,noatime  1 2
/dev/sda1               /               ext3            noatime         0 1
/dev/sda2               none            swap            sw              0 0
#/dev/cdrom             /mnt/cdrom      audo            noauto,ro       0 0
#/dev/fd0               /mnt/floppy     auto            noauto          0 0

shm                     /dev/shm        tmpfs           
nodev,nosuid,noexec     0 0

I am looking into the SCSI file system issue.

Fei
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