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 <gentoo-user+bounces-77564-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1Jegqx-0003rZ-1p for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:24:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D4BE6E057B; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:24:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.180]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBF1DE057B for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:24:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id w53so4890503pyg.25 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:24:24 -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=5WwPlYX+sP6t6K6sUB8oEeN4r1QtPCa8HpOcfZORS6A=; b=VlCCUMeqMzRhviRvdxkUgcGGes4jFC++6eO6du3SFUMoC7x6JbzdKRw2HOisZUIeRMBbhiLCh6ZoPHM9YUgxFR4BjRrpLinHMKyQFUnNP+/5hu9k50gbAqwH21JxEIcYk7vLwiWRYQpIf33xZBaZkvy80gkzUYniE04cOJ0uVZo= 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=bHcR6dK7X4w36/BwU71SiAK73r8U+D67kTAWm6pf7lYTPpfq6Rx6Oz35c4NQanke9IZKxKQ7mRntBXsToEPt5wjm9c7x5SgBv8JO2AjlyYVO2bYMZkeyIPlqoSBX23PK/9WWEVgD1JOzhAnzWBuz7fM5WGi8pSVLKzCv4V8G0Rs= Received: by 10.65.148.19 with SMTP id a19mr1687935qbo.73.1206581064411; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:24:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.55.70? ( [68.196.232.229]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id z21sm10204641qbc.21.2008.03.26.18.24.22 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:24:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <47EAF74C.9030908@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:24:28 -0400 From: Fei Liu <feiliu4@gmail.com> 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: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> 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> <47EAF3AF.90007@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <47EAF3AF.90007@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: da9b66ef-6956-4a9a-940d-6ed3a911324a X-Archives-Hash: 83b7a4f07208ed36f34665cb0bafda97 > 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 > Error messages: ... md: ... autorun DONE VFS: Cannot open root device "sda1" or unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) There is one more thing, this is a vmware machine so the harddrive is a scsi harddrive. Fei -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list