I emerged kernel 2.6.2 dev-gentoo last night and proceeded to get it up and running this evening. When I tried to boot it I ended up with the following problems.Boot to a working kernel or the live CD and comment out the initrd line.
Step 4: Determining root device Root block device unspecified or not detected. Please specify a device to boot, or "shell" for a shell. : (i input /dev/hdb3 and it continued)
then it did the next
Remounting root filesystem read-only (if necesarry)... [!!] Filesystem is NOT cleanly unmounted. Partition /dev/hdb3 is mounted with write permissions, cannot check it *Filesystem couldn't be fixed :( [!!] Give root password for maintenance
What could I have done wrong and how do I fix it?
I've had this problem with every kernel I've built with the genkernel betas and this is how I work around it.
the snip from my lilo.conf in case it helps.
#
image = /boot/kernel-2.6.2-gentoo
root = /dev/hdb3
#root = /devices/discs/disc0/part3
label = Gentoo3
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.2-gentoo
append="root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc"
read-only # read-only for checking
#
thanks in advance for any help
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