Re: [PLUG] gentoo grub troubles

[Michael Lazin <microlaser@gmail.com>]

OK, I tried genkernel and I am getting a similar message.  It says
"Block device /dev/sda3 is not a valid root device !!The root block
device is unspecified or not detected."

Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks,

Michael

On 11/17/05, Daniel Kozlowski <dhk24@drexel.edu> wrote:
> 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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