This problem has occured even if I made my "/" partition as ext2 or ext3 fs type.
Marcelo > On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 08:44:31PM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [skpd] > >> STEP 3: Mounting necessary filesystems per boot options >> Started device management daemon v1.3.25 for /dev >> STEP 4: Determining root device >> STEP 4a: Mounting root >> mount: Mounting /dev/hda3 on /newroot failed: Invalid argument >> Could not mount specified ROOT, try again >> Root block device unspecified or not detected >> Please specify a device to boot, or "shell" for a shell >> : > > I've experienced something very similar trying to install gentoo couple > of weeks ago (don't know if anything has changed since). My problem was > that kernel didn't have built-in support for reiserfs (my '/' partition) > and the initrd stuff didn't load it. I've resolved it by compiling > reiserfs into kernel (as opposed to having it compiled as module). Could > it be your problem as well? > > > -- > - Andrey > > > ~ In theory, practice and theory are the same, > but in practice they are different (Larry McVoy) ~ > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
