On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 12:12:24 +0000
Neil Bothwick <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 06:53:32 -0500, German wrote:
>
> > Ok gentooers. I did manage to install gentoo on EFI, it boots, however
> > hangs at "Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
> > unknown-block ( 0,0)"
> >
> > Does anyone have an idea what is going on?
>
> The kernel cannot find the block device containing your root filesystem.
> Either you have given the wrong root= option to the kernel
Are you talking about this?
"UEFI does not pass kernel parameters to the kernel during normal boot, so you
need to hardcode them via CONFIG_CMDLINE. Example for the root partition on
/dev/sda2:
KERNEL Enable built-in kernel parameters
Processor type and features --->
[*] Built-in kernel command line
(root=/dev/sda2)"
or you have
> not compiled in the driver your your hard disk driver.
>
>
> --
> Neil Bothwick
>
> I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.
--
German <[email protected]>
