Re: [gentoo-user] Problem booting after reinstall

2006-08-22 Thread frank
No, I never use genkernel and I use modules only for things I need once a year (loop, ramdisk, ... ) or things which can't be built into the kernel. Just now I tried the vanilla kernel. Let's see what the reboot brings up. Regards Frank On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 10:16 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: On

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem booting after reinstall

2006-08-21 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 12:16:01 -0700 Richard Fish wrote: On 8/20/06, frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone an Idea? I don't have further :( Since the kernel is being found it is not a grub setup problem. Either: a. The filesystem drivers are not compiled into your kernel. You said

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem booting after reinstall

2006-08-20 Thread Mirek Dvořák
what about fstab?Mirek2006/8/20, frank [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Just a bit more info, I've rebooted into the new system. Here's thewhole message:...VFS: Cannot open root device hda3 or unknown-block(0,0)Please append a correct root= boot option Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem booting after reinstall

2006-08-20 Thread Graham Murray
Mirek Dvořák [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: what about fstab? Mirek Is fstab relevant at this point? As surely /etc/fstab cannot be read until after the root ('/') filesystem is mounted, and this is what is failing. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem booting after reinstall

2006-08-20 Thread iccc
Graham Murray wrote: Mirek Dvořák [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: what about fstab? Mirek Is fstab relevant at this point? As surely /etc/fstab cannot be read until after the root ('/') filesystem is mounted, and this is what is failing. Did you try to boot without the root= option? --

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem booting after reinstall

2006-08-20 Thread frank
Well, I didn't see any reason to try this. The kernel should know where the root filesystem lives. I've tried it just now: The panic is the same. The only difference is that the unknown device is (hd3,3). I've even tried to set root=(hd0,2) (I know, this is NOT what ``info grub'' says) :o( Just

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem booting after reinstall

2006-08-20 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/20/06, frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone an Idea? I don't have further :( Since the kernel is being found it is not a grub setup problem. Either: a. The filesystem drivers are not compiled into your kernel. You said you configured them...are they built in (=y) or as modules