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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HrMbf-0002Tb-BU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 23:20:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4ONIark007623; Thu, 24 May 2007 23:18:36 GMT Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.237]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4ONEEbw002795 for ; Thu, 24 May 2007 23:14:15 GMT Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id n1so160395nzf for ; Thu, 24 May 2007 16:14:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=aCsusgCfMKY4lpefnDTnj7YTt/axD2LBOKZ8Dx/EpFh5FeWSe77RkOJTVp30Q207q/o2pKi8ihhIzaNQuU1IaADziB5EtFzyFYoaOaREdYvM1P8N1+OT1Rtc972tMPV3Gm548dFOQqynjqXaNoWkMxnoOdibYMdR8sqkgCaG4Kw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=kBDWDoji5vkfpx716tMcMcMMlDvIkKclLFW1N601tkGEQD4Q5plnS6uG41+QAKitnH/cYQhVCVa5EVoxy4EX6OPoSEB/ulYYqWdljWAfd2+dQWxBvmbKChrP6x9ncG2d05xj+HwsiaCZW8aeC53XVbijxtuuYVFAmQ7mA7qR4U8= Received: by 10.115.77.1 with SMTP id e1mr1184530wal.1180048454393; Thu, 24 May 2007 16:14:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.72.10 with HTTP; Thu, 24 May 2007 16:14:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 19:14:14 -0400 From: Denis To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail 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 X-Archives-Salt: 48dda336-94d9-4739-80f1-410d4dfad103 X-Archives-Hash: 64d04b3257efd43e1cef1c10a95f7b8f This is the first time ever that I ended up with an unbootable kernel after a new install, and I have no idea where to start. This is a fresh install of Gentoo 2007.0 minimal CD stage 3, using the x86 quick install guide. Here's the error I get at boot while the kernel is loading its device drivers: VFS: Cannot open root device "sda3" or unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) I am using grub, with conf file just like in the install guide (I happened to use the same file system set-up): title=Gentoo root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/kernel root=/dev/sda3 I have a SATA drive in my system, which seems to get loaded fine by the kernel, at least from what I can tell - there seem to be no error messages to that effect. I suppose I could do a genkernel, but I'd like to be able to tell where I went wrong with my config... Where do I start looking for this? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list