Hi Isern,
I actually have the exact same problem, and someone was kind enough to
help me so I'll pass on the same info. Basically my problem was that I
hadn't enabled the proper IDE Chipset (or SCSI if you use S-ATA) in the
kernel. When I booted off my Gentoo install cd, I can 'lspci -v' which
showed me what type of chipset I was looking for to enable in the
kernel. Give that a try and it should solve your problem.
Isern Palaus Montasell wrote:
Hello all,
This is the first time I install Gentoo Linux. This is my grub.conf file:
default 0
timeout 10
splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.18-r2
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.18-gentoo-r2 root=/dev/hda4
title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.18 (Rescate)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.18-gentoo-r2 root=/dev/hda4 init=/bin/bb
boot
#Windows XP Profesional
title=Windows XP Profesional
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
Windows XP boots well but Gentoo Linux no. Start booting but prints this:
[...]
VFS: Cannot opent root device "hda4" or unknow-block(0,0)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option.
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs or
unknow-block(0,0)
<6> Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
I don't know where is the problem, here is my /etc/fstab file
configuration:
# /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/hda3 /boot ext2
noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/hda4 / ext3
noatime 0 1
/dev/hda7 none swap
sw 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660
noauto,ro 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto
noauto 0 0
# NOTE: The next line is critical for boot!
proc /proc proc
defaults 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
/dev/hda1 is a Windows Partition
/dev/hda3 is a Linux Partition for boot
/dev/hda4 is a Linux Partition for root
/dev/hda4 is a Linux Partition for swap.
Thanks in advance and sorry for my school English.
See you,
-- Isern Palaus
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