Just a bit more info, I've rebooted into the new system. Here's the whole message:
... VFS: Cannot open root device "hda3" or unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 10:30 +0000, frank wrote: > Hi all, > > I've decided to reinstall my system to a stable one (I used ~x86 > before). > > To prepare the disk I've wiped out all of / except /home and all > of /boot. > > Th installation (according to the handbook) went smoothly. > > The new kernel starts up and then I get an VFS error saying that there > is an invalid boot option root= ... and panics. > > /boot on /dev/hda1 or (hd0,0) is ext2, / on /dev/hda3 or (hd0,2) > > Here is my menu.lst: > > default 0 > timeout 30 > > title=Initial > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r4_initial root=/dev/hda3 > > I've set up grub this way: > grub> root (hd0,0) > grub> setup (hd0) > grub quit > > The kernel is configured for ext2 and ext3 filesystems. > > Has anyone an Idea? I don't have further :( > > Thanks in advance > Frank > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
