On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 11:01:39AM -0500, Kurt Guenther wrote:
> 
> I'm installing on a Dell Inspiron w/ RH9 & XP already installed.  I 
> created a partition (/dev/hda6) and I'm loading everything on their.  I 
> emerged grub, and it seems to work fine for RH9 & XP, but when I boot 
> Gentoo I get to STAGE 4 and it complains that the:
> 
> Step 4: Determining root device
> Root block device unspecified or not detected.
> Please specify a device to boot, or "shell" for a shell.
> : /dev/hda6
> STEP 4a: Mounting root
> STEP 5: Finishing up
> STEP 5b: seetting up stuff for pivot_root
> STEP 6: pivot_root and exec/chroot real init
> umount : /tmp/.initrd/dev: device is busy
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:06
> 
> My Grub.conf is:
> 
> default=0
> timeout=10
> splashimage=(hd0,4)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> title Gentoo Linux (2.4.22-r5)
>        root (hd0,4)
>        kernel (hd0,4)/boot/kernel-2.4.22-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 
> real_root=/dev/hda6 init=/linuxrc
>        initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd-2.4.22-gentoo-r5
> title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-19.9.acpi.5)
>        root (hd0,4)
>        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-19.9.acpi.5 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi
>        initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-19.9.acpi.5.img
> title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8)
>        root (hd0,4)
>        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi
>        initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img
> title Windows XP Professional
>        rootnoverify (hd0,1)
>        chainloader +1
> 
> There's two oddities that I can think of:
> 
> 1) I made one partition for gentoo with a boot directory instead of a 
> boot partition.  I busy working on creating a boot partition I can use.
> 
> 2)  I labeled the Gentoo Partition "gentoo" to avoid a conflict with 
> Redhat that requires "/" or no boot.  (see grub.conf above).
> 
> Any other ideas?

What is in your /etc/fstab?

-- 
Mike

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