Re: [gentoo-desktop]

[bmicek]

I'm not sure if this link http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/fedora-35/fc2-vfs-cannot-open-root-device-label-or-unknown-block00-269230/
helps but it seems to agree with what your thinking.  Your not using an initrd so you'll need to hot wire your stuff in the kernel (not as a module).

Brian Micek


Monday 02 June 2008 05:10:38 pm Mansour wrote:
> ionut cucu wrote:
> > On Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:15:27 -0300
> >
> > Mansour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Here's the last few lines:
> >>
> >> VFS: Cannot open root device "hda3" or unknown-block(0,0)
> >> Please append a correct "root=" boor option; here are the available
> >> partitions:
> >> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
> >> unknown-block(0,0)
> >>
> >> The root "/" is very large. It's more than 20 GB
> >
> > At a first glance:
> >  You need the file system for / compiled (*) in the kernel
>
> I think you are right about this. I will recompile the kernel. And see
> where do I go from there.
> Thank you.
>
> >  You need to compile the proper chipset in the kernel(or try using the
> > generic one):If your system uses sata be sure to compile properly the
> > drivers for it

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