On Tuesday 10 February 2004 02:34 am, LoneStar wrote: > Chris wrote: > >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. > > > >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? > > Boot to a working kernel or the live CD and comment out the initrd line. > 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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