Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot open root device "hde4" or uknown-block(0,0)

2005-11-06 Thread Norberto Bensa
Bill Six wrote: > how would I find > the ide drivers for my chipset? lspci? > Yes. You can also use "generic ide" as a backup-driver if you don't know which one to use, but you'll lose dma. -- Norberto Bensa 4544-9692 Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot open root device "hde4" or uknown-block(0,0)

2005-11-06 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Yes, run lspci as root and it will spit out what you have. Your motherboard manual may also give the information. On Sun, 6 Nov 2005, Bill Six wrote: --- Norberto Bensa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bill Six wrote: "VFS: Cannot open root device "hde4" or Ok. That sounds good (I've usually

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot open root device "hde4" or uknown-block(0,0)

2005-11-06 Thread Bill Six
--- Norberto Bensa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Six wrote: > > "VFS: Cannot open root device "hde4" or > > uknown-block(0,0) > > You need ide drivers for your chipset AND your > filesystem compiled in your > kernel or in an initrd. Ok. That sounds good (I've usually used genkernel, now

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot open root device "hde4" or uknown-block(0,0)

2005-11-05 Thread Norberto Bensa
Bill Six wrote: > "VFS: Cannot open root device "hde4" or > uknown-block(0,0) You need ide drivers for your chipset AND your filesystem compiled in your kernel or in an initrd. Your grub.conf seems OK since VFS is telling you "root device hde4" -- Norberto Bensa 4544-9692 Ciudad de Buenos Air

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot open root device "hde4" or uknown-block(0,0)

2005-11-05 Thread 赵光
> > > > what do you have in grub.conf? > > That looks like the right idea to me too. root(0,0) is not what should be in > your boot loader. > -- i think it is root(4,0) root=hd(4,3) -- /** * Love in Gentoo-Linux C and Python * Look at my blo

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot open root device "hde4" or uknown-block(0,0)

2005-11-04 Thread Glenn Enright
On Sat, 05 Nov 2005 19:59, Willie Wong wrote: > On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 08:54:56PM -0800, Bill Six wrote: > > "VFS: Cannot open root device "hde4" or > > uknown-block(0,0) > > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > > Kernel panic.." > > It's a 120 Gig harddrive > > /dev/hde1 is 20 Gigs, for

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot open root device "hde4" or uknown-block(0,0)

2005-11-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 08:54:56PM -0800, Bill Six wrote: > Hi, > > I've just installed Gentoo alongside XP. /dev/hde is > my main harddrive. I'm getting the error > > "VFS: Cannot open root device "hde4" or > uknown-block(0,0) > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic.." >

[gentoo-user] Cannot open root device "hde4" or uknown-block(0,0)

2005-11-04 Thread Bill Six
Hi, I've just installed Gentoo alongside XP. /dev/hde is my main harddrive. I'm getting the error "VFS: Cannot open root device "hde4" or uknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic.." Any idea why this is? Maybe this info will help It's a 120 Gig harddrive /de