Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot open root device sda3 or unknown-block (0,0)

2010-11-17 Thread Stroller
On 17/11/2010, at 6:56am, Dale wrote: ... So now system boots but I can not seem to the network card going. On the lspci -k I think you mean lspci -nn (there is no switch -k) ... The man page shows a -k switch here so maybe what you are booting has a older version or something. I advise

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot open root device sda3 or unknown-block (0,0)

2010-11-17 Thread Joseph
On 11/17/10 13:57, Stroller wrote: On 17/11/2010, at 6:56am, Dale wrote: ... So now system boots but I can not seem to the network card going. On the lspci -k I think you mean lspci -nn (there is no switch -k) ... The man page shows a -k switch here so maybe what you are booting has a older

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot open root device sda3 or unknown-block (0,0)

2010-11-17 Thread Joseph
On 11/17/10 13:57, Stroller wrote: On 17/11/2010, at 6:56am, Dale wrote: ... So now system boots but I can not seem to the network card going. On the lspci -k I think you mean lspci -nn (there is no switch -k) ... The man page shows a -k switch here so maybe what you are booting has a older

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot open root device sda3 or unknown-block (0,0)

2010-11-17 Thread Joseph
On 11/17/10 00:56, Dale wrote: It appears udev is renaming the network card so I would check the udev rules. They are usually in /etc/udev/rules.d and I think it starts from the higher numbers and works its way down. I'm not much of a expert on udev. Dale :-) :-) You are correct previous

[gentoo-user] Cannot open root device sda3 or unknown-block (0,0)

2010-11-16 Thread Joseph
My ASUS A8V motherboard went down so I change it with another ASUS MB M2NPV along with CPU. Both CPU's were AMD so no need to change flags. Have two hard drives both SATA 200G and 500G However, after trying to boot I get: VFS: Cannot open root device sda3 or unknown-block (0,0) In grub.conf I

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot open root device sda3 or unknown-block (0,0)

2010-11-16 Thread Dale
Joseph wrote: My ASUS A8V motherboard went down so I change it with another ASUS MB M2NPV along with CPU. Both CPU's were AMD so no need to change flags. Have two hard drives both SATA 200G and 500G However, after trying to boot I get: VFS: Cannot open root device sda3 or unknown-block (0,0)

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot open root device sda3 or unknown-block (0,0)

2010-11-16 Thread Joseph
On 11/16/10 21:04, Dale wrote: Joseph wrote: My ASUS A8V motherboard went down so I change it with another ASUS MB M2NPV along with CPU. Both CPU's were AMD so no need to change flags. Have two hard drives both SATA 200G and 500G However, after trying to boot I get: VFS: Cannot open root

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot open root device sda3 or unknown-block (0,0)

2010-11-16 Thread Dale
Joseph wrote: On 11/16/10 21:04, Dale wrote: Joseph wrote: My ASUS A8V motherboard went down so I change it with another ASUS MB M2NPV along with CPU. Both CPU's were AMD so no need to change flags. Have two hard drives both SATA 200G and 500G However, after trying to boot I get: VFS: Cannot

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot open root device sda3 or unknown-block (0,0)

2010-11-16 Thread Joseph
On 11/16/10 21:45, Dale wrote: [snip] The BIOS sees both HD but, boot sector is working OK as grub comes up but then I get a message: VFS: Cannot open root device sda3 or unknown-block (0,0) please append a correct root= boot option; here are the available partitions: 0300 4191302 hda driver:

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot open root device sda3 or unknown-block (0,0)

2010-11-16 Thread Dale
Joseph wrote: On 11/16/10 21:45, Dale wrote: [snip] The BIOS sees both HD but, boot sector is working OK as grub comes up but then I get a message: VFS: Cannot open root device sda3 or unknown-block (0,0) please append a correct root= boot option; here are the available partitions: 0300

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot open root device sda3 or unknown-block (0,0)

2010-11-16 Thread Joseph
On 11/16/10 22:40, Dale wrote: Thanks for the hint. What should I look for? I think lspci list some chipset, MCP51 but kernel is not listing anything on MCP51 Try lspci -k from the CD. That should tell you what driver the CD is using. Then while in the kernel config, just look for that

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot open root device sda3 or unknown-block (0,0)

2010-11-16 Thread Graham Murray
Joseph syscon...@gmail.com writes: So now system boots but I can not seem to the network card going. On the lspci -k I think you mean lspci -nn (there is no switch -k) No, he does mean 'lspci -k'. The -k switch lists the kernel driver which is handling each item. If you do this from the CD

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot open root device sda3 or unknown-block (0,0)

2010-11-16 Thread Dale
Joseph wrote: On 11/16/10 22:40, Dale wrote: Thanks for the hint. What should I look for? I think lspci list some chipset, MCP51 but kernel is not listing anything on MCP51 Try lspci -k from the CD. That should tell you what driver the CD is using. Then while in the kernel config, just

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot open root device sda3 or unknown-block (0,0)

2010-11-16 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Tue, 11/16, Joseph wrote: === Anyhow, dmesg |grep eth shows: forcedeth :00:14.0 ifname eth0, PHY OUI addr. 00:17:31:83:a1:53 udev: renamed network interface eth0 to eth1 Any idea why is it renaming network interface? I have forcedeth loaded in the kernel but it is not bringing

[gentoo-user] cannot open root device sda3

2010-01-21 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, I am trying to boot gentoo from an external USB HDD. I am getting the error message:   VFS: Cannot open root device sda3 or unknown-block(2,0)   Please append a correct root= boot option; here are the available partitions:   Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot open root device sda3

2010-01-21 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag 21 Januar 2010 19:08:53 schrieb Valmor de Almeida: I am trying to boot gentoo from an external USB HDD. I am getting the error message: VFS: Cannot open root device sda3 or unknown-block(2,0) Please append a correct root= boot option; here are the available partitions:

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot open root device sda3

2010-01-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 21 January 2010 20:08:53 Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, I am trying to boot gentoo from an external USB HDD. I am getting the error message: VFS: Cannot open root device sda3 or unknown-block(2,0) Please append a correct root= boot option; here are the available

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot open root device sda3

2010-01-21 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Donnerstag 21 Januar 2010 19:08:53 schrieb Valmor de Almeida: [snip] If yes, lookup the list archive a couple of weeks back, somebody mentioned a boot option to delay booting to give the kernel some time to discover USB devices. HTH... Dirk Yup,