Hi people,
I have installed the latest gentoo linux distribution and I don't know
what I am missing in my installation, specially the last gentoo
installation worked for me fine.
At booting I recive the error message:
"Block device /dev/sda5 is not a valid root device."
Hard disk is a SATA one, with a Core2Duo machine.
What am I doing wrong?
for any help solving my problem, I would thank you kindly.
Tamer
content of my fstab:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# noatime turns off atimes for increased performance (atimes normally
aren't
# needed; notail increases performance of ReiserFS (at the expense of
storage
# efficiency). It's safe to drop the noatime options if you want and to
# switch between notail / tail freely.
#
# The root filesystem should have a pass number of either 0 or 1.
# All other filesystems should have a pass number of 0 or greater than 1.
#
# See the manpage fstab(5) for more information.
#
# <fs> <mountpoint> <type> <opts>
<dump/pass>
# NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/sda5 / ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/sda6 /opt ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/sda7 /usr/local ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/sda8 /home ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/sda9 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom audo noauto,ro 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0
# glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for
# POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink).
# (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will
# use almost no memory if not populated with files)
shm /dev/shm tmpfs
nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0
and grub.conf:
grub.conf:
# This is a sample grub.conf for use with Genkernel, per the Gentoo
handbook
#
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=10#doc_chap2
# If you are not using Genkernel and you need help creating this file, you
# should consult the handbook. Alternatively, consult the
grub.conf.sample that
# is included with the Grub documentation.
default 0
timeout 30
title Gentoo Linux 2.6.25-r7
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.25-gentoo-r7 root=/dev/ram0
init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sda5
initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.25-gentoo-r7
