I'm installing Gentoo 1.4rc2 on an Athlon 1800+ with 256MB RAM and a
40GB disk. I'm using stage3 and the Gentoo Reference Platform (from
gentoo-grp-athlon-xp-1.4_rc2.iso). The system is installed, and I boot
(for the first time) with GRUB, and I get a kernel panic. This is the
message:
VFS: Cannot open root device "hda4" or 03:04
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:04
This is part of /boot/grub/grub.conf:
title=Gentoo Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda4
This is my partition list (from fdisk):
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 26 208813+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 27 157 1052257+ 82 Linux Swap
/dev/hda3 158 1177 8193150 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 1178 4865 29623860 83 Linux
This is part of my /etc/fstab:
/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/hda4 / reiserfs noatime 0 1
I have ReiserFS statically compiled into the kernel. It seems that my
kernel can't find (or mount) my root partition, and I'm not sure why.
What is going on here? How do I fix the problem? Thanks.
-Brian Doob
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