From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-54562-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@gentoo.org>) id 1GidQ2-0000tJ-IN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 20:56:10 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kAAKrPhk019326; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 20:53:25 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.190]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kAAKoSm4032422 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 20:50:29 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c31so1764915nfb for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 12:50:28 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=fFuNDn6EIIs2tia6pbfop0rWwxA8vazT/cFKY7xJVonPu3Y/Ebc7jAW6w13QKahOEVkQuvc2dKPjvY0xXxFWvd0QbrZmcXttCvA6QypEz/5TFlxnHAUk+IcPNRqimg1gOGCaDELvGdzchJxt+6I783EJe5FgAw++fmJmXTG+BVc= Received: by 10.78.204.7 with SMTP id b7mr3057194hug.1163191828310; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 12:50:28 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.106.3 with HTTP; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 12:50:28 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <7573e9640611101250v6b452f7dhb8f12a4bbc3dbd3a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 13:50:28 -0700 From: "Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org> Sender: richard.j.fish@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New to Gentoo. Having trouble getting it started for the first time In-Reply-To: <4554E1D2.20902@net-xero.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4554E1D2.20902@net-xero.net> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 184855b4c7aa1f17 X-Archives-Salt: b9459b92-e889-491c-8c65-2105d19c7c6f X-Archives-Hash: 19f68e6644312c817cffc1accbbe9895 On 11/10/06, Jon M <gentoo@net-xero.net> wrote: > The contents of my /boot/grub/grub.conf is as follows: [snip] > Everything look normal so far? Yep. > VFS: Cannot open root device "hda3" or unknown-block(0,0) This is not a problem with your grub configuration. The "unknown-block(0,0)" tells me that the kernel cannot find a device for hda3. You probably missed either the device driver needed for your IDE chipset, or IDE hard drive support in your kernel configuration. If you need help figuring out what you need here, post the outputs of: grep -v -e "^#" -e "^$" /usr/src/linux/.config lspci -v HTH, -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list