Stephen Gran on 18 Nov 2005 03:32:15 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] gentoo grub troubles


On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 10:12:50PM -0500, Michael Lazin said:
> I just finished a stage 3 install of gentoo for x86_64.  I am having
> some trouble configuring grub.  The kernel starts to boot and I get
> the following error message:
> 
> VFS: Cannot open root device "sda3" 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)
> 
> My grub.conf is as follows:
> 
> default 0
> timeout 30
> splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.13
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /kernel-2.6.13-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/sda3
> 
> /dev/sda3 is my root partition, it is a SATA drive
> 
> Any idea what is going on?

hd(0,0) is generally hda in grub-speak, I thought.  Figuring out what
grub calls sda is where I would start.  The grub shell is good for this
sort of thing, so you could poke about there.

HTH,
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