Re: [gentoo-user] New to Gentoo. Having trouble getting it started for the first time

[Roger Mason <rmason@esd.mun.ca>]

Jon M <gentoo@net-xero.net> writes:

> I'm new to Gentoo, but not to Linux.  For some reason I seem to be
> struggling to get it booted after installing.  Basically my setup is I
> have 3 partitions as follows: /dev/hda1 (32MB EXT3) used as
> /boot. /dev/hda2 (512MB) for swap, and the rest is on /dev/hda3
> (ReiserFS).
>
> The contents of my /boot/grub/grub.conf is as follows:
>
> default 0
> timeout 30
> splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>
> title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.17-r8
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hda3
>
> Everything look normal so far?  Well when I reboot, and select Gentoo
> on the GRUB list, it starts to load and then I get the following error:
>
> 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)

Did you build ReiserFS into the kernel? i.e. not as a module.

Roger Mason

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