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tamtam
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 Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 2:43 pm Post subject: Root block device is unspecified |
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Hi, Gentoo newbie here,
After installing and rebooting using the Gentoo Linux x86 handbook, I get the splash screen okay. Booting into Gentoo stops with the following message...
The root block device is unspecified or not detected.
I followed the instructions as per the book for a 586 install and genkernel.
have tried a search on here.
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di1bert
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| Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 3:52 pm Post subject: |
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Sounds like a problem with your /etc/fstab file, although there are a couple
of other problems with a similar error.
Did you edit this file to reflect the correct partition for your root ("/")
partition ?
It should look something like this....
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/dev/sda3 / reiserfs defaults 0 1
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nixnut
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Post the last five lines of the error output please. That will give us a better idea of the actual problem. Now I just have to guess: your kernel may be missing the driver for the pata/sata controller. There are a lot of threads about this problem. Please search around a bit to see it this is the problem you are experiencing.
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tamtam
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| Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 5:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Post the last five lines of the error output please |
Eh! only one line as stated above?
fstab
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/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/hda3 / ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0
shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0
proc /proc proc 0 0
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tamtam
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| Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 5:38 pm Post subject: |
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I also tried
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#lspci
bash: lspci command not found
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tamtam
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| Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 6:06 pm Post subject: |
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SORTED.
I had not specified root in grub.conf correctly. I copied over root=/dev/ram0. Changed it to root=/dev/hda3.
Silly me, you live and learn.
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snakeo2
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| Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 10:46 pm Post subject: |
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Tamtam,
Can you please tell me exactly what you did, Im having the same issue and have had no luck solving it.
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