Isn't there something about using notail with Reiser in some setups? > 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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