I'm installing on a Dell Inspiron w/ RH9 & XP already installed. I created a partition (/dev/hda6) and I'm loading everything on their. I emerged grub, and it seems to work fine for RH9 & XP, but when I boot Gentoo I get to STAGE 4 and it complains that the:
Step 4: Determining root device Root block device unspecified or not detected. Please specify a device to boot, or "shell" for a shell. : /dev/hda6 STEP 4a: Mounting root STEP 5: Finishing up STEP 5b: seetting up stuff for pivot_root STEP 6: pivot_root and exec/chroot real init umount : /tmp/.initrd/dev: device is busy Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:06
My Grub.conf is:
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,4)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Gentoo Linux (2.4.22-r5)
root (hd0,4)
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/kernel-2.4.22-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 real_root=/dev/hda6 init=/linuxrc
initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd-2.4.22-gentoo-r5
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-19.9.acpi.5)
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-19.9.acpi.5 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-19.9.acpi.5.img
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8)
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img
title Windows XP Professional
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader +1
There's two oddities that I can think of:
1) I made one partition for gentoo with a boot directory instead of a boot partition. I busy working on creating a boot partition I can use.
2) I labeled the Gentoo Partition "gentoo" to avoid a conflict with Redhat that requires "/" or no boot. (see grub.conf above).
Any other ideas?
--Kurt
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