can't boot, "block device is not a valid root device"
Tamer Higazi wrote:
Hi people,
I have installed the latest gentoo linux distribution and I don't know
what I am missing in my installation, specially the last gentoo
installation worked for me fine.
At booting I recive the error message:
"Block device /dev/sda5 is not a valid root device."
Hard disk is a SATA one, with a Core2Duo machine.
What am I doing wrong?
for any help solving my problem, I would thank you kindly.
Tamer
content of my fstab and grub.conf:
http://rafb.net/p/Z9WNgO61.html
content of lspci:
http://rafb.net/p/VOtr9x33.html
Did you compile in the kernel the drivers for your chipset? Not as
modules but in the kernel, a Y not a M.
Dale
:-) :-)
09-07-2008, 07:22 AM
Dirk Heinrichs
can't boot, "block device is not a valid root device"
Am Sonntag, 7. September 2008 07:45:35 schrieb Michele Schiavo:
> you need in .config kernel file
>
> CONFIG_ATA_PIIX=y
> CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y
According to his .config (posted in gentoo-user-de), both are in.
can't boot, "block device is not a valid root device"
