Fei Liu wrote:
Here is the complete grub.conf file:
more /boot/grub/grub.conf
default 0
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd0,0)/boot/message
title 2.6.24.4-default
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/kernel root=/dev/sda1 splash=silent showopts
/etc/fstab:
#/dev/BOOT /boot ext2
noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/sda1 / ext3
noatime 0 1
/dev/sda2 none swap
sw 0 0
#/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom audo
noauto,ro 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto
noauto 0 0
shm /dev/shm tmpfs
nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0
I am looking into the SCSI file system issue.
Fei
Error messages:
...
md: ... autorun DONE
VFS: Cannot open root device "sda1" or unknown-block(0,0)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available
partitions:
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on
unknown-block(0,0)
There is one more thing, this is a vmware machine so the harddrive is
a scsi harddrive.
Fei
I finally found this page and got this stuff to work, the catch is
'vmware' specific feature.
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Gentoo_on_VMware_in_Windows_NT/2K/XP#Kernel_Options
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