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 ) id 1GEm3R-0001J5-KO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 12:05:26 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7KC2GQQ009948; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 12:02:16 GMT Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.178]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7KBwb8i006289 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 11:58:38 GMT Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id d42so1830413pyd for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 04:58:37 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=M+tFl/EomVTw8hE9hRFElqIXyC0rPjvTU3VAWpZA2jz/ge+U2NKETgBTa50eV5u4pNrgWQnZWYi2CUz9Wxa4j/iETZnuv9FD7HnvgjxT1ciF+P2T0cpnUQRteRKFWCV/RliZx/NarVp/d/GICpJSuod4bvLcSFaxujikArE0OQo= Received: by 10.35.127.7 with SMTP id e7mr10627906pyn; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 04:58:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.115.7 with HTTP; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 04:58:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 13:58:37 +0200 From: "=?ISO-8859-2?Q?Mirek_Dvo=F8=E1k?=" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem booting after reinstall In-Reply-To: <1156072044.2814.3.camel@livecd.gentoo> 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: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_54642_2582484.1156075117765" References: <1156069815.3768.10.camel@livecd.gentoo> <1156072044.2814.3.camel@livecd.gentoo> X-Archives-Salt: 149f3a8a-3c82-493a-8e9c-2e6f25b0f8bd X-Archives-Hash: c553d1f291fbcd1b64ad5dd1f5e4260f ------=_Part_54642_2582484.1156075117765 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline what about fstab? Mirek 2006/8/20, frank : > > Just a bit more info, I've rebooted into the new system. Here's the > whole message: > > ... > VFS: Cannot open root device "hda3" 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) > > > > On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 10:30 +0000, frank wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've decided to reinstall my system to a stable one (I used ~x86 > > before). > > > > To prepare the disk I've wiped out all of / except /home and all > > of /boot. > > > > Th installation (according to the handbook) went smoothly. > > > > The new kernel starts up and then I get an VFS error saying that there > > is an invalid boot option root= ... and panics. > > > > /boot on /dev/hda1 or (hd0,0) is ext2, / on /dev/hda3 or (hd0,2) > > > > Here is my menu.lst: > > > > default 0 > > timeout 30 > > > > title=Initial > > root (hd0,0) > > kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r4_initial root=/dev/hda3 > > > > I've set up grub this way: > > grub> root (hd0,0) > > grub> setup (hd0) > > grub quit > > > > The kernel is configured for ext2 and ext3 filesystems. > > > > Has anyone an Idea? I don't have further :( > > > > Thanks in advance > > Frank > > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > ------=_Part_54642_2582484.1156075117765 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline what about fstab?
Mirek

2006/8/20, frank <sdoma@karneval.cz>:
Just a bit more info, I've rebooted into the new system. Here's the
whole message:

...
VFS: Cannot open root device "hda3" 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)



On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 10:30 +0000, frank wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've decided to reinstall my system to a stable one (I used ~x86
> before).
>
> To prepare the disk I've wiped out all of / except /home and all
> of /boot.
>
> Th installation (according to the handbook) went smoothly.
>
> The new kernel starts up and then I get an VFS error saying that there
> is an invalid boot option root= ... and panics.
>
> /boot on /dev/hda1 or (hd0,0) is ext2, / on /dev/hda3 or (hd0,2)
>
> Here is my menu.lst:
>
> default 0
> timeout 30
>
> title=Initial
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r4_initial root=/dev/hda3
>
> I've set up grub this way:
> grub> root (hd0,0)
> grub> setup (hd0)
> grub quit
>
> The kernel is configured for ext2 and ext3 filesystems.
>
> Has anyone an Idea? I don't have further :(
>
> Thanks in advance
> Frank
>

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