Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device hda6 or unknown-block(3,6)

2006-12-27 Thread Robin Atwood
On Wednesday 27 December 2006 01:38, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 26 December 2006 18:26, Bruce Burden wrote: You can use tab auto-completion in grub to see what drives and partitions are identified as. Also, I need to know how to change the Windows partition so that Windows believe it

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device hda6 or unknown-block(3,6)

2006-12-27 Thread Luca Botti
Funny. From kernel 2.6.18 on I receive this message when cold-booting my (linux only) notebook. On second try, it all works well. Disk geometry and partitioning has not been changed. I guess a bug in kernel. Alle Wednesday 27 December 2006 09:45, Robin Atwood ha scritto: On Wednesday 27

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device hda6 or unknown-block(3,6)

2006-12-26 Thread fei huang
didn't you separate your boot partition from / ? -- root (hd1,5) this indicates your BOOT partition (/boot) is located at /dev/hdb6 -- kernel /boot/linux-2.6.15-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/hda6 this indicates your ROOT partition ( your / ) locates at /dev/hda6, is is possible? On 12/26/06, Bruce

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device hda6 or unknown-block(3,6)

2006-12-26 Thread Gabriel Rossetti
Hi, If it's in a USB enclosure, you need your /boot to be in a partition on your main disk (the one inside of the laptop), if I'm not mistaking, Fei seams to think so too. The hda* is now an sda* (or sdb*, sdc*, etc) because usb storage stuff emulates scsi. Gabriel Bruce Burden wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device hda6 or unknown-block(3,6)

2006-12-26 Thread Bruce Burden
Hi Fei, On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 05:35:59PM +0800, fei huang wrote: didn't you separate your boot partition from / ? -- root (hd1,5) this indicates your BOOT partition (/boot) is located at /dev/hdb6 Originally, this would have been: root(hd0,5) -- kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device hda6 or unknown-block(3,6)

2006-12-26 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 26 December 2006 18:26, Bruce Burden wrote: Hi Fei, On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 05:35:59PM +0800, fei huang wrote: didn't you separate your boot partition from / ? -- root (hd1,5) this indicates your BOOT partition (/boot) is located at /dev/hdb6 Originally, this

[gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device hda6 or unknown-block(3,6)

2006-12-25 Thread Bruce Burden
Hi gang, I have a laptop, originally with Windows. I partitioned the windows space, and installed Gentoo. Fine and well. Then I replaced the original hard drive with a new one, and moved the windoze/Gentoo drive to a USB enclosure. I changed the drive specs from

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device hda6 or unknown-block(3,6)

2006-12-25 Thread Dale
Bruce Burden wrote: title Gentoo Linux 2.6.15 root (hd1,5) kernel /boot/linux-2.6.15-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/hda6 Thank you, Bruce Shouldn't you have changed the root= line to hdb