Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panic mounting root fs

2003-11-15 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Sunday 16 November 2003 16:08, KamaolaKid wrote: I'm using grub-static as my boot loader. My boot partition is /dev/sda1 and grub is installed to the MBR. I get to the grub prompt fine, but when the kernel starts, the error kernel panic: could not read device /dev/sda1 followed by please

RE: [gentoo-user] Kernel panic mounting root fs

2003-11-15 Thread KamaolaKid
Firstly, you should put root=root device and not root=boot device. Valid point, however, in my case they are one in the same. Secondly, it sounds like the kernel cannot find your scsi device (assuming you do have scsi) so you probably don't have the correct driver compiled into the

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panic mounting root fs

2003-11-15 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Sunday 16 November 2003 16:36, KamaolaKid wrote: Secondly, it sounds like the kernel cannot find your scsi device (assuming you do have scsi) so you probably don't have the correct driver compiled into the kernel. The hard drive is a western digital SATA raptor with a VIA SATA chipset.