You might have accidently disabled support for your filesystem in the kernel. Make sure it's enabled, and try again :).
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Mansour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I am trying to install gentoo on a desktop machine. I downloaded the > minimal CD and followed the instruction in the quick installation. Now, I > have a problem either in the grub configuration or in kernel and I need help > to figure this one out. > > I have existing partitions for windows and my previous Fedora (/home > directory), therefore I installed gentoo on /dev/hda3. The problem is I get > a kernel panic when I try to boot. In grub I am using (hd0,2) as my root, > because I don't want to write anything to the mbr. After editing grub.conf, > I run a grub shell, and execute the commands root(hd0,2) then setup(hd0,2). > Then tried to reboot. > > Here the relevant part of grub.conf: > ============================ > title Linux > root (hd0,2) > kernel (hd0,2)/boot/kernel root=/dev/hda3 > ================================= > > I don't have a separate partition for boot, it's on the root "/" > filesystem. > > Can anyone tell what's going on ? If there's missing info please let me > know, as everyone has different way when troubleshooting a problem. > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > >
