Jon M wrote: > Hey everyone, > > 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) > > > Any help anyone could provide would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in > advance! Please try this:
intead of kernel /kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hda3 give kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hda3 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
