Ok gang ... first, I am a fairly new Gentoo user. I have a Shuttle box running a 2.4.22 kernel. When I first brought this box up I had some problems booting my SATA drive. I fiddled with the config and got it to work, and then went merrily onward.
I was having some USB problems and reconfigured/rebuilt my kernel and now, again, I can't boot my SATA drive! I went back and did what I (only vaguely) remember doing before to make it work, but am stuck. I get to the point where I am about to boot and get a kernel panic. The panic reads like : ---------- VFS: Cannot open root device "hda3" or 03:03 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:03 ---------- Bear in mind that my grub setup (which is where the "root=" would go) is unchanged from the kernel that worked so I think the problem is purely with my kernel config. And ... before anyone says I should have saved the old bootable kernel, I know. *sigh* It was one of those brain-fart moments that caused me to just blithely overwrite the old, working, kernel. Won't happen again (for a few years, at least)! So, anybody have a clue what I need to do? I remember having to go in and force-set the SATA configurations in my kernel config, but I've *done* that (or think I have) and it still isn't working. What now? -- Dwight -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
