Step 4 of booting process fails !??

redpotatoes

My problem is the following : I've install gentoo with all the necessary configuration and when I try to boot it , it starts but stops at Step 4 and says: Mounting root, cant find blablabla... At first I though that it was my /etc/fstab that was not configure well like written in other post but everything seems to be in place in that file. I also checked my grub.conf because i have a dual boot with XP(Which starts ok) and it also is configure ok. So I was woundering what could be the problems ??

/etc/fstab:

/dev/hdc1 /boot ext2
/dev/hdc3 / reiserfs
/dev/hdc2 none swap note:/hdc is my 2nd HD

/grub.conf

default x
timeout x
slashimage= xxxxxxxxx

title=Gentoo Linux
root (hd1,0)
kernel (hd1,0)/boot/kernel-2.4.22-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 real_root=/dev/hdc3 init=/linuxrc
initrd (hd1,0)/boot/initrd-2.4.22-gentoo-gentoo-r5

title=Windows XP
root (hd0,0)
chainloader (hd0,0)+1

SOmeone knows ??????

andi79 · n00b Joined: 25 Nov 2003 Posts: 74

llamakc · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 15 Jul 2003 Posts: 94

What kind of machine is this? You DO have reiserfs support in your kernel, correct? Also, your grub.conf has hd1,0 (which is /dev/hdb1) as boot yet your fstab has hdc1 which would correspond to hd2,0.

I don't use reiserfs (and maybe that's why you have the /dev/ram0 and real_root appends) but is your kernel line correct?

I didn't have any of that when I installed a few weeks ago.

redpotatoes · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 5:15 pm Post subject:

In the installation guide hd0 refer to the first hard drive and hd1 refer to the second hard drive so its impossible to use /dev/hdb1 as hd1,0
I have a athlon xp and i dont know is my kernel support that what i did was emerge -k source-..... so it dicided for me I guess. My line kernel is ok

vtkstef · n00b Joined: 27 Jan 2004 Posts: 26

Hi,

As per your fstab you may want to ommit the /boot part of directory references specified in your grub.conf file

Instead of