didn't you separate your boot partition from / ?<br> <br> --> <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"> root (hd1,5) </span> <br>this indicates your BOOT partition (/boot) is located at /dev/hdb6<br><br>--> <span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"> kernel /boot/linux-2.6.15-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/hda6</span><br>this indicates your ROOT partition ( your / ) locates at /dev/hda6, is is possible?<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/26/06, <b class="gmail_sendername"> Bruce Burden</b> <<a href="mailto:brucegb@realtime.net">brucegb@realtime.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <br><br> Hi gang,<br><br> I have a laptop, originally with Windows. I partitioned the<br> windows space, and installed Gentoo. Fine and well.<br><br> Then I replaced the original hard drive with a new one, and <br> moved the windoze/Gentoo drive to a USB enclosure. I changed the<br> drive specs from "hda0,x" to "hda1,x", and attempted to boot<br> Gentoo in single user mode, by appending a 1 to the GRUB string. <br><br> That seemed to work, but eventually the process fails with<br> the:<br><br>VFS: Cannot open root device "hda6" or unknown-block(3,6)<br><br> message above. Googling about tells me that perhaps the SCSI or <br> the USB subsystems may not be loaded, and that is why the boot<br> process fails. One recommendation was the change the /dev/hdaX<br> notation for the device numerical notation, ie root=0x802.<br><br> Now, I have not (quickly) found the numerical notation, <br> although I did encounter it once upon a time previously. Does<br> this seem like the correct approach? If so, what would be the<br> correct notation for the second drive? As I recall, 0x800 was<br> a SCSI notation? <br><br> My GRUB is:<br><br>default 0<br>timeout 8<br>splashimage=(hd1,5)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz<br><br><br>title Gentoo Linux 2.6.15<br> root (hd1,5)<br> kernel /boot/linux-2.6.15-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/hda6<br> <br>title Windows<br> root (hd1,0)<br> makeactive<br> chainloader +1<br><br>title Failsafe -- Gentoo Linux 2.6.12<br> kernel (hd1,5)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off vga=nor<br>mal noresume selinux=0 barrier=off nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 3 <br> initrd (hd1,5)/boot/initrd<br><br><br> and all I have really done is change hd1,X, where originally I<br> had hda0,X...<br><br> I would also like to be able to boot into windoze, and currently<br> all it does is return to the GRUB menu, so clearly something isn't <br> right...<br><br> Thank you,<br> Bruce<br>--<br>------------------------------------------------------------------------ <br> "I like bad!" Bruce Burden Austin, TX.<br> - Thuganlitha<br> The Power and the Prophet<br> Robert Don Hughes<br><br>--<br><a href="mailto:gentoo-user@gentoo.org"> gentoo-user@gentoo.org</a> mailing list<br><br></blockquote></div><br>