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 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
