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, Myk Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----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 /boot partition resides) > grub> setup (hd0) (Install GRUB in the MBR) > grub> quit (Exit the GRUB shell) > > - --myk > > Gentoo Linux Mailing List Client wrote: > > I had to move my linux partition from /dev/hda3 to /dev/hda1 > > I have altered /etc/fstab to reflect the move, along with > > /boot/grub/menu.lst > > yet everytime I boot I still get the following error. > > > > The root block device is unspecified or not detected. > > Please specify a device or "shell" for a shell. > > BOOT () :: > > > > at this point if I enter "/dev/hda1" the system continues to boot fine. > > what am I forgetting to fix? > > > > TIA, > > Tomoki Taniguchi > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFCnsxnBOPsJyAQkeARAvGqAKDAFeCbyTVjPqezDwaGr3lITAiE4ACfTxku > RwFWxRzeKggA0rutmGBTBaQ= > =3UIJ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
