Re: [PLUG] gentoo grub troubles

Daniel Kozlowski <dhk24@drexel.edu> · Thu, 17 Nov 2005 22:46:10 -0500

That actually looks like the error you get when file system support is
not compiled into the kernel. I would first make sure that you have SATA
support compiled into the kernel ( compile din not modules)  then make
sure you have all the correct filesystem types compiled in. ( again not
modules)  If you do have the correct paramaters compiled in I would say
try a second kernel maybe even the genkernel. 

On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 22:12 -0500, Michael Lazin wrote:
> 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?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> MIchael
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