Your grub.conf may be a little out of whack (not a grub expert). From mine:
title=Gentoo Linux 2.4.20 R6 root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.4.20-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/hda3 initrd (hd0,0)/initrd-2.4.20-gentoo-r6 Owen On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 12:26, z wrote: > I just finished another new install of Gentoo which went very well until I > rebooted and got the following errors during boot > ... > STEP 5c: redirect console > mknod: /newroot/dev/console: No such file or directory > linuxrc: 277 : cannot open /newroot/dev/console: No such file > kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! > > At this pont I can only power off. > > The kernel compiled successfully using the command > "genkernel --menuconfig all" > using gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r7 source with the following output: > > kernel compiled successfully! > Required Kernel Params: > : root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc real_root=/dev/$ROOT > where $ROOT is the device node for your root partition as > you should have specified in /etc/fstab > You MUST tell your bootloader to use the generated initrd. > Recommended Kernel Params > :vga=0x317 splash=verbose > > I have three partitions > /dev/hda1 /boot (ext3) > /dev/hda2 swap > /dev/hda3 / (reiserfs) > > This is my grub.conf params > > #Gentoo > root (hd0,0) > kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-2.4.22-gentoo-r7 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc > real_root=/dev/hda1 > initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd-2.4.22-gentoo-r7 > > I tried changing the $ROOT paramater to /dev/hda3 and got the following error > ... > STEP 4a : Mounting root > mount: Mounting /dev/hda3 on /newroot failed: Invalid argument > Could not mount specified ROOT, try again > Root block device unspecified or not detected > Please specify a device to boot, or "shell" for a shell. > > Any advice would be helpful, > > z > > PS I followed a stage3 install and did a "emerge sync" to get the latest > portage tree before compiling the kernel and reboot. > I also tried subscribing to the gentoo list but never get a response from > their server - anyone else on that list having issues? > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
