On Monday 04 February 2008 20:10, Easwar Hariharan wrote: > > > So, maybe he is using some filesystem without building in the > > > support for that fs in the kernel? > > > > right or the module is not in initramfs. what is the rootfs > > type?. check the /lib/modules/<kernel ver>/kernel/fs for the > > module and the initramfs by uncompressing, after booting into > > your old setup. BTW does gentoo do a compile from scratch for a > > fresh install? > > Um,I'm using a ext3 partition for my /.I guess that's supported.And > I used the easy install method(that is the NOT the one "Recommended > by devs") > > Also I re-tried Osric's method without using sudo update-grub which > I'd done last time in the hope that it would prove to be the > stumbling block. > > But no go,it still can't find a valid block device for root.I tried > giving it (Xd0,Y) where I put both "s" and "h" for X and "8" and > "9" for Y.No go,it still gets a kernel panic attempting to kill > init.
is it a sata drive. In which case you will require sata modules and root would be sdxy. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
