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On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 10:12:50PM -0500, Michael Lazin said: > I just finished a stage 3 install of gentoo for x86_64. I am having > some trouble configuring grub. The kernel starts to boot and I get > the following error message: > > VFS: Cannot open root device "sda3" or unknown block(0,0) > Please append a correct "root" boot option > Kernel panic-not syncing:VFS:unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) > > My grub.conf is as follows: > > default 0 > timeout 30 > splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.13 > root (hd0,0) > kernel /kernel-2.6.13-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/sda3 > > /dev/sda3 is my root partition, it is a SATA drive > > Any idea what is going on? hd(0,0) is generally hda in grub-speak, I thought. Figuring out what grub calls sda is where I would start. The grub shell is good for this sort of thing, so you could poke about there. HTH, -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | I judge a religion as being good or bad | | steve@lobefin.net | based on whether its adherents become | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | better people as a result of practicing | | | it. - Joe Mullally, computer salesman | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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