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Dark Link · n00b Joined: 12 May 2005 Posts: 23

Hey,
I finally got around to trying gentoo, i followed the guide as best i could. When installation was done, i rebooted the computer, the grub screen appeared and i hit enter. I got some error about it failing to mount the root file system and then followed by kernel panic or something. I only have gentoo installed on my system and im not sure how i can edit the files without installing another distro. I'm on the gentoo live cd at the moment typing this up in links. So any ideas? =/.

dmitchell · Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 3:54 am Post subject:

Just mount your partitions somewhere (/mnt/gentoo is fine, just like in the installation guide) and edit away. If you used genkernel there's most likely a problem with /etc/fstab; otherwise you probably forgot to build support for your filesystem into your kernel.
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Frodg · l33t Joined: 11 Feb 2004 Posts: 761

It is most probably an issue with the /etc/fstab file.
If you could copy it into this message and post it???
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Dark Link · n00b Joined: 12 May 2005 Posts: 23

I'm not sure im doing it right, when i boot up the live cd should i use this: "mount -t ext3 /dev/sda3 /mnt/gentoo" if so, then i did that and went to look at the fstab it showed me the live cd's fstab, what am i doing wrong? =/

Also i wrote down the error from when i boot up. "Kernel panic - not syncing :VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown block (1,0)

Canadaan · n00b Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 4

I had the same problem. It turned out that I did not compile the correct SATA drivers in the kernel. I mounted the drives again. Did the chroot. Went into the kernel config with make menuconfig. Checked the SATA and SCSI drivers and compiled the new kernel.

Varg_ · Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 6:47 am Post subject:

If you have a SATA drive, you need to compile those drivers into your kernel, and same goes for IDE.

Additionally, you need to make sure that you've compiled in the proper filesystem (ext3, reiserfs, etc) drivers into your kernel as well.
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projectle · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Jan 2005 Posts: 90

Did you use Genkernel? If so, you did not include the --udev flag.

Try recompiling as the following
genkernel --udev all

Then, you should be set.

Dark Link · n00b Joined: 12 May 2005 Posts: 23

tomvollerthun · Guru Joined: 19 Mar 2005 Posts: 316

The fstab of the partition you just mounted is in the etc subdirectory of the mountpoint, not in /etc.
If you did