Re: [gentoo-user] New to Gentoo. Having trouble getting it started for the first time
Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: Hello! here is my grub.conf in order to compare, the only thing that i notice is missing is the initrd line, i am no Linux expert either so maybe that is not a must have. Anyway, my machine works, so i hope you can comparte this file to yours and find out whats missing, hope it helps. default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=Gentoo Linux root (hd0,0) kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.17-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda3 initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.17-gentoo-r5 Hi Rafael, Thanks for your reply :) I actually managed to get it up and running. Turns out my grub.conf was good, but was missing my IDE chipset in the kernel. With a bit of playing around I managed to get it up and running. Thanks again for trying to help though, I appreciate it! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New to Gentoo. Having trouble getting it started for the first time
Jon M wrote: Hey everyone, I'm new to Gentoo, but not to Linux. For some reason I seem to be struggling to get it booted after installing. Basically my setup is I have 3 partitions as follows: /dev/hda1 (32MB EXT3) used as /boot. /dev/hda2 (512MB) for swap, and the rest is on /dev/hda3 (ReiserFS). The contents of my /boot/grub/grub.conf is as follows: default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.17-r8 root (hd0,0) kernel /kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hda3 Everything look normal so far? Well when I reboot, and select Gentoo on the GRUB list, it starts to load and then I get the following error: VFS: Cannot open root device "hda3" or unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) Any help anyone could provide would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance! Hello! here is my grub.conf in order to compare, the only thing that i notice is missing is the initrd line, i am no Linux expert either so maybe that is not a must have. Anyway, my machine works, so i hope you can comparte this file to yours and find out whats missing, hope it helps. default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=Gentoo Linux root (hd0,0) kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.17-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda3 initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.17-gentoo-r5 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New to Gentoo. Having trouble getting it started for the first time
Richard Fish wrote: On 11/10/06, Jon M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The contents of my /boot/grub/grub.conf is as follows: [snip] Everything look normal so far? Yep. VFS: Cannot open root device "hda3" or unknown-block(0,0) This is not a problem with your grub configuration. The "unknown-block(0,0)" tells me that the kernel cannot find a device for hda3. You probably missed either the device driver needed for your IDE chipset, or IDE hard drive support in your kernel configuration. If you need help figuring out what you need here, post the outputs of: grep -v -e "^#" -e "^$" /usr/src/linux/.config lspci -v HTH, -Richard Hi Richard, I think you are correct. I just scanned through the output of those two commands and I believe I may have missed the IDE chipset. I'm going to try enabling it and see if that helps. As for the other two responses, I did compile ReiserFS directly into the kernel, and also tried changing the kernel line in grub.conf to read kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hda3 with little success. Hopefully this will work though. Thanks again! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New to Gentoo. Having trouble getting it started for the first time
Norman Rieß schrieb: Jon M wrote: Hey everyone, I'm new to Gentoo, but not to Linux. For some reason I seem to be struggling to get it booted after installing. Basically my setup is I have 3 partitions as follows: /dev/hda1 (32MB EXT3) used as /boot. /dev/hda2 (512MB) for swap, and the rest is on /dev/hda3 (ReiserFS). The contents of my /boot/grub/grub.conf is as follows: default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.17-r8 root (hd0,0) kernel /kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hda3 Everything look normal so far? Well when I reboot, and select Gentoo on the GRUB list, it starts to load and then I get the following error: VFS: Cannot open root device "hda3" or unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) Any help anyone could provide would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance! Please try this: intead of kernel /kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hda3 give kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hda3 Or i should simply read better... sorry. Forget the rubbish i wrote... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New to Gentoo. Having trouble getting it started for the first time
Jon M wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I'm new to Gentoo, but not to Linux. For some reason I seem to be > struggling to get it booted after installing. Basically my setup is I > have 3 partitions as follows: /dev/hda1 (32MB EXT3) used as /boot. > /dev/hda2 (512MB) for swap, and the rest is on /dev/hda3 (ReiserFS). > > The contents of my /boot/grub/grub.conf is as follows: > > default 0 > timeout 30 > splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz > > title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.17-r8 > root (hd0,0) > kernel /kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hda3 > > Everything look normal so far? Well when I reboot, and select Gentoo > on the GRUB list, it starts to load and then I get the following error: > > VFS: Cannot open root device "hda3" or unknown-block(0,0) > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on > unknown-block(0,0) > > > Any help anyone could provide would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in > advance! Please try this: intead of kernel /kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hda3 give kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hda3 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New to Gentoo. Having trouble getting it started for the first time
Jon M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm new to Gentoo, but not to Linux. For some reason I seem to be > struggling to get it booted after installing. Basically my setup is I > have 3 partitions as follows: /dev/hda1 (32MB EXT3) used as > /boot. /dev/hda2 (512MB) for swap, and the rest is on /dev/hda3 > (ReiserFS). > > The contents of my /boot/grub/grub.conf is as follows: > > default 0 > timeout 30 > splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz > > title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.17-r8 > root (hd0,0) > kernel /kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hda3 > > Everything look normal so far? Well when I reboot, and select Gentoo > on the GRUB list, it starts to load and then I get the following error: > > VFS: Cannot open root device "hda3" or unknown-block(0,0) > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on > unknown-block(0,0) Did you build ReiserFS into the kernel? i.e. not as a module. Roger Mason -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New to Gentoo. Having trouble getting it started for the first time
On 11/10/06, Jon M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The contents of my /boot/grub/grub.conf is as follows: [snip] Everything look normal so far? Yep. VFS: Cannot open root device "hda3" or unknown-block(0,0) This is not a problem with your grub configuration. The "unknown-block(0,0)" tells me that the kernel cannot find a device for hda3. You probably missed either the device driver needed for your IDE chipset, or IDE hard drive support in your kernel configuration. If you need help figuring out what you need here, post the outputs of: grep -v -e "^#" -e "^$" /usr/src/linux/.config lspci -v HTH, -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] New to Gentoo. Having trouble getting it started for the first time
Hey everyone, I'm new to Gentoo, but not to Linux. For some reason I seem to be struggling to get it booted after installing. Basically my setup is I have 3 partitions as follows: /dev/hda1 (32MB EXT3) used as /boot. /dev/hda2 (512MB) for swap, and the rest is on /dev/hda3 (ReiserFS). The contents of my /boot/grub/grub.conf is as follows: default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.17-r8 root (hd0,0) kernel /kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hda3 Everything look normal so far? Well when I reboot, and select Gentoo on the GRUB list, it starts to load and then I get the following error: VFS: Cannot open root device "hda3" or unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) Any help anyone could provide would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
