On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 07:23:42 -0500, German wrote:

> > > Ok gentooers. I did manage to install gentoo on EFI, it boots,
> > > however hangs at "Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount
> > > root fs on unknown-block ( 0,0)"
> > > 
> > > Does anyone have an idea what is going on?
> > 
> > The kernel cannot find the block device containing your root
> > filesystem. Either you have given the wrong root= option to the kernel
> 
> Where is this given? Can you elaborate?

After the kernel name if you are using GRUB or Gummiboot. If you are
directly loading the kerne you probably have to compile it into the
kernel with CONFIG_CMDLINE.

> > not compiled in the driver for your hard disk driver.
> 
> I am using SSD Patriot Blaze. Is it also should be compiled somewhere
> in the kernel? Why is the system boots at all?

It's the controller that needs to be compile in, which is usually AHCI
these days. This is covered in the kernel section of the handbook.


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