On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 06:10:08PM +0100, Gerhard W.Gruber wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 09:36:50 -0600, Kevin Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> >A week a go I upgraded to an ABit N7-S (nForce2) mb with an AMD Athlon XP. Using
> >the same disk and Gentoo installation from the previous system, I couldn't boot
> >into Linux. So, I reinstalled from stage 1. All went well thru stage 3. When I
> >rebooted I still got the error:
> >
> >VFS: can't open root device "hda6" or hda6
> >kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on hda6
>
> What is you rbootloader? How does your kernel loadline look and on what
> partition is the bootimage? On what partition did you compile the kernel
> image?
Unless you're making some simple mistake, it sounds like support
for using the IDE channel on your nForce2 chipset is compiled
into a kernel module? I have such a machine at home, and so I
could check when I get home if it's not obvious to you, but when
you boot up on the install CD, you should run lsmod and see if
one of the modules listed is named something with the substring
"ide" and/or "nforce".
If this is the case, you'll need to go through the chroot process
again and compile yourself a new kernel that has support for the
nForce2 built in. When it's in a kernel module, you have a
chicken and egg problem: the kernel can't access the hard drive
without the module, and it can't get the module without accessing
the filesystem on the hard drive.
Re-install grub/lilo and you should be good to go!
- richard
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