On Sunday 09 March 2003 18:26, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> Isn't there something about using notail with Reiser in some setups?
Yes, you must use 'notail' for all your boot/root partitions.
I don't know if changing the option will fix the problem all by itself,
though...you may need to remake the partition, possibly with some special
options to mkreiserfs.
I use Reiser, myself, but I've never been able to successfully boot using a
ReiserFS boot and/or root partition.
>
> > 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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