Jon M wrote:
Hey everyone,
I'm new to Gentoo, but not to Linux. For some reason I seem to be
struggling to get it booted after installing. Basically my setup is I
have 3 partitions as follows: /dev/hda1 (32MB EXT3) used as /boot.
/dev/hda2 (512MB) for swap, and the rest is on /dev/hda3 (ReiserFS).
The contents of my /boot/grub/grub.conf is as follows:
default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.17-r8
root (hd0,0)
kernel /kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hda3
Everything look normal so far? Well when I reboot, and select Gentoo
on the GRUB list, it starts to load and then I get the following error:
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)
Any help anyone could provide would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in
advance!
Hello! here is my grub.conf in order to compare, the only thing that i
notice is missing is the initrd line, i am no Linux expert either so
maybe that is not a must have. Anyway, my machine works, so i hope you
can comparte this file to yours and find out whats missing, hope it helps.
default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.17-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0
init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda3
initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.17-gentoo-r5
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