On Tuesday 01 April 2003 12:43 pm, Jordan Elver wrote: > Hi, > This is my first post and first install and I'm having a few > problems. I've gone through all the stages of the install and got the > setup of grub. When rebooting. Grub pops up with the normal menu. I > hit enter and the kernel says "Uncompressing Kernel...." and all the > normal stuff. Then after detecting some stuff. It says: > > ds: no socket drivers loaded > Kernel Panic: VFA: Unable to mount root fs on 03:03 > > Then it hangs. > > I followed the instructions to setup grub using: > > root (hd0,0) > setup (hd0) > > My partitions are: > > /dev/hda1 /boot ext3 > /dev/hda2 /swap > /dev/hda3 / reiserfs > > grub.conf was also copied from the install instructions > > default 0 > timeout 30 > splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz > > title=Gentoo > root (hd0,0) > kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda3 > > I've tried the paths with /boot/ and without and it doesn't make a > difference. I have added reiserfs and ext3 to the kernel options. > > I checked the forum but none of the suggested fixes matched my > problem exactly. Does any one have any idea what I can do next? > > Thanks in advance for any help, > Jordan
From what I see after a brief google search this has something to do with PCMCIA. Are you installing on a laptop? If so, try removing any pcmcia cards, and post results. -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
