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I posted a message yesterday about a boot problem, this is just an
update to that. When I try to boot Gentoo I get the following message: "VFS: cannot open device "sda4" or unknown-block(8,4) please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic -not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,4) <0> rebooting in 180 seconds.." Is this a problem with yaboot.conf or because it is a kernel panic do I have to recompile? On the advice of a Gentoo user of 2 years, my yaboot.conf now looks like this: boot=/dev/sda2 device=hd: partition=4 root=/dev/sda4 timeout=30 install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot image=/boot/kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r2 label=Linux read-only sysimage=/boot/System.map-2.6.11 macosx=/dev/sda5 enablecdboot enableofboot However, this is largely unchanged from what I posted inline yesterday. Any help would be appreciated. I have already recompiled my kernel, but I didn't know what changes to make. It compiles okay I think. The only change I made was to add Kaui and something else. Really I get lost in the kernel options as they're not very verbose. I don't intend to tinker with it in future. This is probably where my problem is. I followed the Gentoo handbook in setting it up, and a Dutch webpage. I had to disable ADB support due to compile problems. Thanks in advance, Jon Lee |
