Boy do I feel stupid. Never crossed my mind that these were place holder, I figured Gentoo has a different idea....
it works now. On Saturday 27 September 2003 6:13 pm, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 13:42, Bruce E. Harris wrote: > > I have been trying for about 2 wks now, with no luck. I am getting > > closer, but... > > > > I have my scsi card detected now. However I keep getting this error > > during boot up > > > > modprobe Cant locate module /dev/SWAP > > modprobe Cant locate moudle /dev/ROOT > > You need to edit your /etc/fstab file to indicate the actually hard disk > partitions that are your swap and root partitions. The words SWAP and > ROOT are just place holders. > > try running fdosk /dev/hda and then typeing 'p' and looking at the > partition numbers. put these in fstab and you should be good to go. > > IF yo are booting from a reiserfs partition, then make sure that this > capabilitiy is built into the kernel and not set up as a module. > > > Something about a corupt reiserfs (not true. I can mount and read it via > > LiveCD and another working Linux distribution.) > > > > I have reinstalled many times. Regenerated more kernels then I can count. > > Still no luck. > > > > Any ideas? I am so close, but just about had it. -- Best Regards, Bruce "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety". Benjamin Franklin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list