[gentoo-user] Boot Problems: /dev/sda3 is not a valid root device
Hi all, I just tried to install Gentoo 2005.1 on a computer with one 9GB SCSI. When booting, I get the following error: ~ Block device /dev/sda3 is not a valid root device The root block device is unspecified or not detected ~ I tried other block devices (dev/sda1 etc) to no avail My grub.conf.is as follows: ~ default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=Woohoo Gentoo root (hd0,0) kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.13-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sda3 udev initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.13-gentoo-r5 ~ My fstab is as follows: ~ /dev/sda1/bootext2noauto,noatime1 2 /dev/sda3/ ext3noatime 0 1 /dev/sda2noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/hdc/mnt/cdromiso9660noauto,ro0 0 #/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppyautonoauto 0 0 proc/procprocdefaults0 0 shm/dev/shmtmpfsnodev,nosuid,noexec0 0 ~ Hope someone can help, as it's getting awfully irritating using a CD-ROM to boot the system (which isn't necessary very often). Mike -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Boot Problems: /dev/sda3 is not a valid root device
On Wed, 09 Nov 2005 10:00:49 -0800, Michael Shaw wrote: I just tried to install Gentoo 2005.1 on a computer with one 9GB SCSI. When booting, I get the following error: ~ Block device /dev/sda3 is not a valid root device The root block device is unspecified or not detected ~ Do you have the drivers for your SCSI controller compiled into the kernel, not as modules. -- Neil Bothwick There are two standards for anything... One for the U.S. and one for the rest of the world. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Boot Problems: /dev/sda3 is not a valid root device
On 11/9/05, Michael Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I just tried to install Gentoo 2005.1 on a computer with one 9GB SCSI. When booting, I get the following error: ~ Block device /dev/sda3 is not a valid root device The root block device is unspecified or not detected ~ Most likely you need to reconfigure and rebuild your kernel with SCSI disk support and the driver for your SCSI controller compiled into the kernel, not as a module (=Y, not =M). -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Boot Problems: /dev/sda3 is not a valid root device
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 09 Nov 2005 10:00:49 -0800, Michael Shaw wrote: I just tried to install Gentoo 2005.1 on a computer with one 9GB SCSI. When booting, I get the following error: ~ Block device /dev/sda3 is not a valid root device The root block device is unspecified or not detected ~ Do you have the drivers for your SCSI controller compiled into the kernel, not as modules. Not to the best of my knowledge. I guess that would do it. I just assumed they would be there, in the genkernel. I'll give it a whirl and see what I can find. Thanks -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Boot Problems: /dev/sda3 is not a valid root device
Richard Fish wrote: On 11/9/05, Michael Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I just tried to install Gentoo 2005.1 on a computer with one 9GB SCSI. When booting, I get the following error: ~ Block device /dev/sda3 is not a valid root device The root block device is unspecified or not detected ~ Most likely you need to reconfigure and rebuild your kernel with SCSI disk support and the driver for your SCSI controller compiled into the kernel, not as a module (=Y, not =M). -Richard Thanks. I'll trt it. Have to wait for an opportunity to reboot the machine to see how well it works Mike -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
