didn&#39;t you separate your boot partition from / ?<br>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;--&gt; &nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"> root (hd1,5)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>&nbsp; <br>this indicates your BOOT partition (/boot) is located at&nbsp; /dev/hdb6<br><br>--&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;<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> &lt;<a href="mailto:brucegb@realtime.net">brucegb@realtime.net</a>&gt; 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>&nbsp;&nbsp; Hi gang,<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I have a laptop, originally with Windows. I partitioned the<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; windows space, and installed Gentoo. Fine and well.<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Then I replaced the original hard drive with a new one, and
<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; moved the windoze/Gentoo drive to a USB enclosure. I changed the<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; drive specs from &quot;hda0,x&quot; to &quot;hda1,x&quot;, and attempted to boot<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; Gentoo in single user mode, by appending a 1 to the GRUB string.
<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That seemed to work, but eventually the process fails with<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; the:<br><br>VFS: Cannot open root device &quot;hda6&quot; or unknown-block(3,6)<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp; message above. Googling about tells me that perhaps the SCSI or
<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; the USB subsystems may not be loaded, and that is why the boot<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; process fails. One recommendation was the change the /dev/hdaX<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; notation for the device numerical notation, ie root=0x802.<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Now, I have not (quickly) found the numerical notation,
<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; although I did encounter it once upon a time previously. Does<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; this seem like the correct approach? If so, what would be the<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; correct notation for the second drive? As I recall, 0x800 was<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; a SCSI notation?
<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;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>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;root (hd1,5)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;kernel /boot/linux-2.6.15-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/hda6<br>
<br>title Windows<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;root (hd1,0)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;makeactive<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;chainloader +1<br><br>title Failsafe -- Gentoo Linux 2.6.12<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;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&nbsp;&nbsp;3
<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;initrd (hd1,5)/boot/initrd<br><br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp; and all I have really done is change hd1,X, where originally I<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; had hda0,X...<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I would also like to be able to boot into windoze, and currently<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; all it does is return to the GRUB menu, so clearly something isn&#39;t
<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; right...<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Thank you,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Bruce<br>--<br>------------------------------------------------------------------------
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