[ale] Fresh Gentoo Install won't boot

Nathan J. Underwood lists at cybertechcafe.net
Wed Jul 30 13:07:50 EDT 2003


Disregard :-)

Found the boo-boo when I proofread my message.  It should have been /dev/hda3,
and not /dev/hda3.  Now gotta get X up and running, and I'll be good to go


Quoting "Nathan J. Underwood" <lists at cybertechcafe.net>:

> Just did a fresh Gentoo Linux Install (started it yesterday), and (I
> believe)
> followed the instructions line by line.  Got to the end, exited the chroot,
> unmounted everything, and rebooted, and no dice.  I get a kernel panic :-( 
> The
> exact message is:
> 
> ttyS04 at port 0x4080 (irq = 11) is a 16550A   <-- This is the last 'normal'
> line
> VFS: Cannot open root device "dev/hda3" or 00:00
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00
> 
> The root partition (dev/hda3 is reiserfs)
> 
> my grub.conf reads:
> 
> default 0
> timeout 3
> spashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> 
> title=Initial Gentoo Linux
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage root=dev/hda3
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 
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