Hi gentoo-users, I've installed gentoo on a Dell PowerEdge 1650 with perc 3/di, running raid1 (mirrored disks). No problems installing; "modprobe aacraid" made the livecd (1.4_rc2) kernel recognize the raid controller. While installing, everything looks good. I use grub as boot loader, and I made the grub boot disk as the install instructions say. But no matter what I do, I can't get the kernel to boot my system. Instead it panics:
----error messages---------- kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 (... some lines omitted ...) VFS: Cannot open root device "sda6" or 08:06 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:06 ----no more error messages; system hangs---- I've compiled the kernel with SMP support as per the Linux SMP HOWTO. My partition scheme: /boot /dev/sda2 swap /dev/sda3 /tmp /dev/sda5 / /dev/sda6 /var /dev/sda7 /dev/sda1 contains Dell Utilities. /dev/sda4 is the extended partition. Grub setup: # grub > root (hd0,1) > setup (hd0) > quit /boot/grub/grub.conf: #-------------- default 0 timeout 30 title="Gentoo Linux" root (hd0,1) kernel (hd0,1)/boot/bzImage root=/dev/sda6 #-------------- I've tried using /dev/scsi/.... and /dev/sd/.... too. And I've tried kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/sda6 Same errors. Any help will be greatly appreciated! Bjornar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
