From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jegc3-0002sl-9C for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:09:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 21B73E0564; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:09:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.176]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06AD2E0564 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:09:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id w53so4884308pyg.25 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:09:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Y0m4Y/cj5U1pjBozAfPK7SXE0PN/eXmj78xO/vYY83I=; b=e/bmstOFOdpJ0fJj2v3cBgDwJT/1Ps0Kn5RBAITRKvGjcPlJ6zRwKHuW+kn4x9T6KPAw7UHg+XzQAumyLNsTkBvvtbXXROSPly4ZhncSEG7eBd9f89DazFYCNwkOS5VhBXwulQTVLKaPvPkm+BBmWe4J0EsQX7qM+vm4mBHGnoM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=DMBsMJYKSNqNyXauXWAV2HjB8ABi8KLEfl7OCZO98aQbB/Ycp4DP7ND0n15+lqP23eNQaVxUJkD1qFyqqQpry6tX+RmT0aXUFuFT197rSYKom5cS1Sov17S8vWzPYWpym6LZzEncPzk2anUOIWWYMfvNM2Kqo2Gm+3ll/1bRcDE= Received: by 10.64.243.10 with SMTP id q10mr1747143qbh.25.1206580140339; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:09:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.55.70? ( [68.196.232.229]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d2sm10233932qbc.36.2008.03.26.18.08.58 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:08:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <47EAF3AF.90007@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:09:03 -0400 From: Fei Liu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080202 SeaMonkey/1.1.8 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: problem with 2 partition installation from gentoo minimal system References: <47EA6E5A.1090104@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <47EA6E5A.1090104@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 97f5b0db-b232-433f-b47a-ded6dc577d06 X-Archives-Hash: dfe6b91396f6b8cde63afd919452969e 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 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list