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ah, sounds similar to the discussion on
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/topic-23080.html
short version: make sure the drivers for the hdd device and filesystem
are compiled into the kernel and doubld check your grub.conf kernel= line.
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in /boot/grub/grub.conf, did you change your kernel root?
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1
HTH,
Roy
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>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
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, M
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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 /
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 she
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