On Freitag, 25. Mai 2007, Denis wrote: > This is the first time ever that I ended up with an unbootable kernel > after a new install, and I have no idea where to start. This is a > fresh install of Gentoo 2007.0 minimal CD stage 3, using the x86 quick > install guide. > > Here's the error I get at boot while the kernel is loading its device > drivers: > > 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) > > I am using grub, with conf file just like in the install guide (I > happened to use the same file system set-up): > > title=Gentoo > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/kernel root=/dev/sda3 > > I have a SATA drive in my system, which seems to get loaded fine by > the kernel, at least from what I can tell - there seem to be no error > messages to that effect. > > I suppose I could do a genkernel, but I'd like to be able to tell > where I went wrong with my config... Where do I start looking for > this?
like copying the relevant parts of dmesg for us to see? maybe it is a missing sata-driver, missing scsi-disk support? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
