Re: [gentoo-user] root block device unspecified error on boot

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ah, sounds similar to the discussion on http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/topic-23080.html short version: make sure the drivers for the hdd device and filesystem are compiled into the kernel and doubld check your grub.conf kernel= line. - --myk Gento

Re: [gentoo-user] root block device unspecified error on boot

in /boot/grub/grub.conf, did you change your kernel root? kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 HTH, Roy Gentoo Linux Mailing List Client wrote: >yeah I did that as well. >grub is not the problem as far as I can tell. >I get the boot menu just fine. >my system stops when it tries to (re

Re: [gentoo-user] root block device unspecified error on boot

yeah I did that as well. grub is not the problem as far as I can tell. I get the boot menu just fine. my system stops when it tries to (re)mount the root partition. It seems to think I didn't specify it. I thought that's what fstab was for ??? any other suggestions? TIA, Tomoki On 6/2/05, M

Re: [gentoo-user] root block device unspecified error on boot

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Have you directed the first-stage bootloader to find root on hda1? from http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2005.0/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=10#doc_chap2 try 'grub-install /dev/hda' or 'grub' and grub> root (hd0,0) (Specify where your /