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revof11
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 Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 11:52 pm Post subject: Configuring Grub - unable to mount sda3 |
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I followed the base instructions up to Configuring Your System and proceeded on to the Grub configuration portion of the doc.
Since I have Serial-ATA drives, everything in the docs that had "hdax" i used "sdax" for. Including in my fstab file.
The problem is that using the following configuration in grub.conf results in errors:
| Code: | default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.19-r5
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sda3 udev noapic no_timer_check
initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-86_64-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 |
The error I get is as follows:
| Code: | >> Activating mdev
>> Determining root device...
!! Block device /dev/sda3 is not a valid root device...
!! The root block device is unspecified or not detected.
Please specify a device to boot, or "shell" for a shell
boot() :: |
What am I doing wrong here?
If I go to the default shell provided by Gentoo at this point all I see is hda and hda, but no sda or sdb.
I tried booting using hda and hda3, but that yielded no results either.
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mianka
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| Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 12:04 am Post subject: No sata |
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| You have to turn on scsi and sata in your (gen)kernel config |
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revof11
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| Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 12:08 am Post subject: |
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SO just run:
genkernel --menuconfig --udev all
In there, make sure that SD and SG are turned on
Then add doscsi after my real_root.
Is that it?
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revof11
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| Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 12:24 am Post subject: |
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OK... so here's what i've turned on:
| Code: | Device Drivers --->
SCSI device support --->
<M> RAID Transport Class
<*> SCSI device support
[*] legacy /proc/scsi/ support
--- SCSI support type (disk, tape, CD-ROM)
<*> SCSI disk support
<M> SCSI tape support
<M> SCSI OnStream SC-x0 tape support
<*> SCSI CDROM support
[*] Enable vendor-specific extensions (for SCSI CDROM)
<M> SCSI generic support
<M> SCSI media changer support
Device Drivers --->
Serial ATA (prod) and Parallel ATA (experimental) drivers --->
<M> ATA device support
<M> Generic ATA support |
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revof11
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| Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 12:46 am Post subject: |
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Running that kernel config did not work.
I will try just turning on support for all the different SATA data...
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revof11
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| Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 1:22 am Post subject: |
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Compiling with absolutely everything in the SATA environment worked.
Just need to fix my "netmount was not started" error and i should be all good...
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