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 1Jeh6i-0004tX-Mc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:40:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6AC8AE05E7; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:40:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from el-out-1112.google.com (el-out-1112.google.com [209.85.162.176]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37693E05E7 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:40:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by el-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id r23so164694elf.19 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:40:40 -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:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=dxtNn8fzqxTRJQpAR4tS+AQaCWZDDnq1aItA7RDrpOo=; b=RJNX8rlOSOlW4gYx9iNKTyJ1baY6LOyBwrMUJJNwHqs2O61zHKbbmezBoWQsv+643+WPuG7MPtqEZMZXXSpPhox/jFbgOOMildRqJtZjkc3nIw0Iqdq+Pp7sE4zNYoDL7Flj4dncLya3oP43zdrvcPrivdTbcTPGlAK05nf27EA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=lQ7dCNPqrbb8bt6pR2ob3BtUldKgPSA3TVXkkml/vJQlBq+ZTHnLgfx55D7lHNaXaAJ+5NTgejAsRn0QtqB0EdxH1fawC7vO4ruWlBB6HlQs4O5SSAJxxqed2nJV5EWquiGtRhGhnxPzpKdDNQdIov3feSOKYO/UfRVv5A36ztg= Received: by 10.114.56.1 with SMTP id e1mr499554waa.52.1206582040386; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:40:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.198.8 with HTTP; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:40:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9ed554210803261840t4fb19798r2112fa177d7f5a92@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:40:40 -0400 From: "Greg Bowser" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem with 2 partition installation from gentoo minimal system In-Reply-To: <47EAF74C.9030908@gmail.com> 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 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_20841_19788993.1206582040359" References: <47EA6E5A.1090104@gmail.com> <47EAF3AF.90007@gmail.com> <47EAF74C.9030908@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: b56c5874-d40c-4e3c-ae40-37df2d123872 X-Archives-Hash: 1566d1c0179f3fef5de2b9fcaa2c75f6 ------=_Part_20841_19788993.1206582040359 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 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) (hey, I remembered not to top post for once!) Not that this hasn't been said, but this is almost definitely a device driver issue. In my experience (and I've had this and similar errors on many systems), when it's a file system problem (i.e. having the correct FS driver compiled in), you get unknown-block(x,y) where x,y are both nonzero. That said, something definitely needs to be changed with your kernel config. I run several vmware servers (the free server), and have gentoo VMs on those. If you'd like, I can post my .config for you to compare. Or I could just look through the scsi options I have configured. When I configured my VMs, I remember reading the following article: (along with some trial and error, of course.) http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Gentoo_on_VMware_in_Windows_NT/2K/XP#Kernel_Configuration -- Greg Postscript: As this is an error mouting your root file system, the fstab, which is stored on the root file sysem, doesn't matter at this point in the boot process. ------=_Part_20841_19788993.1206582040359 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline <snip>
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)
</snip> (hey, I remembered not to top post for once!)

Not that this hasn't been said, but this is almost definitely a device driver issue. In my experience (and I've had this and similar errors on many systems), when it's a file system problem (i.e. having the correct FS driver compiled in), you get unknown-block(x,y) where x,y are both nonzero.

That said, something definitely needs to be changed with your kernel config. I run several vmware servers (the free server), and have gentoo VMs on those. If you'd like, I can post my .config for you to compare. Or I could just look through the scsi options I have configured.

When I configured my VMs, I remember reading the following article: (along with some trial and error, of course.)
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Gentoo_on_VMware_in_Windows_NT/2K/XP#Kernel_Configuration


-- Greg

Postscript: As this is an error mouting your root file system, the fstab, which is stored on the root file sysem, doesn't matter at this point in the boot process.

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