Hi all,
I just tried to install Gentoo 2005.1 on a computer with one 9GB SCSI.
When booting, I get the following error:
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Block device /dev/sda3 is not a valid root device
The root block device is unspecified or not detected
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I tried other block devices (dev/sda1 etc) to no avail
My grub.conf.is as follows:
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default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Woohoo Gentoo
root (hd0,0)
kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.13-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0
init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sda3 udev
initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.13-gentoo-r5
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My fstab is as follows:
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/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/sda3 / ext3 noatime
0 1
/dev/sda2 none swap sw
0 0
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto
0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0
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Hope someone can help, as it's getting awfully irritating using a CD-ROM
to boot the system (which isn't necessary very often).
Mike
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