Actually hell.. Dont know what to do. I am tryng to setup Gentoo on this server all the day and whatever I try there is no luck. I used genkernel andd Lilo and whenever I try to boot from HD I got:

Block device /dev/sda3 is not valid root device...

Could not find the root block device in.


Anyone knows at all any solution to this ? :/

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On Thursday 10 April 2008, Amar Cosic wrote:
> Actually hell.. Dont know what to do. I am tryng to setup Gentoo on
> this server all the day and whatever I try there is no luck. I used
> genkernel andd Lilo and whenever I try to boot from HD I got:
>
> Block device /dev/sda3 is not valid root device...
> Could not find the root block device in.

You have not compiled all the needed drivers into the kernel. You'll
need drivers for your chipset, the scsi stuff and libata.

Try google, this has been asked and answered hundreds of times this year
alone.


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Alan

I tried everything, tor on all scsi stuff,almost all ata/sata stuff, but still no luck :/ .Do you know exactly where to look for libata in kernel menu ?

Thanks

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thursday 10 April 2008, Amar Cosic wrote:

> Actually hell.. Dont know what to do. I am tryng to setup Gentoo on

> this server all the day and whatever I try there is no luck. I used

> genkernel andd Lilo and whenever I try to boot from HD I got:

>

> Block device /dev/sda3 is not valid root device...

> Could not find the root block device in.



You have not compiled all the needed drivers into the kernel. You'll

need drivers for your chipset, the scsi stuff and libata.



Try google, this has been asked and answered hundreds of times this year

alone.





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On Thursday 10 April 2008, Amar Cosic wrote:
> Alan
>
> I tried everything, tor on all scsi stuff,almost all ata/sata stuff,
> but still no luck :/ .Do you know exactly where to look for libata in
> kernel menu ?

What disk hardware do you have?


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What disk hardware do you have?





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http://pastebin.ca/979686

http://pastebin.ca/979691

DOnt know actualy how to get full disk info. Hope this can help


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On 10 Apr 2008, at 15:46, Alan McKinnon wrote:

On Thursday 10 April 2008, Amar Cosic wrote:

... whenever I try to boot from HD I got:

Block device /dev/sda3 is not valid root device...
Could not find the root block device in.


You have not compiled all the needed drivers into the kernel. You'll
need drivers for your chipset, the scsi stuff and libata.


And for the filesystem of the root fs.

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This is hell! I have all SATA stuff, all SCSI stuff ,almost all ATA stuf, all Intel stuff, all Linux FS stuff and still same errorr for 24 hours (




On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 7:43 AM, Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:



On 10 Apr 2008, at 15:46, Alan McKinnon wrote:


On Thursday 10 April 2008, Amar Cosic wrote:


... whenever I try to boot from HD I got:



Block device /dev/sda3 is not valid root device...

Could not find the root block device in.




You have not compiled all the needed drivers into the kernel. You'll

need drivers for your chipset, the scsi stuff and libata.




And for the filesystem of the root fs.



Stroller.

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On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 09:07 +0200, Amar Cosic wrote:
> This is hell! I have all SATA stuff, all SCSI stuff ,almost all ATA
> stuf, all Intel stuff, all Linux FS stuff and still same errorr for 24
> hours (

with my Poweredge 2900, the live cd shows a different device to the
kernel, eg livecd shows my disks as sda, but the kernel shows the as
hda, or vice versa. You might want to try all (h|s)da3 combinations...

HTH,
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On Thursday 10 April 2008 15:04:56 Amar Cosic wrote:

> Block device /dev/sda3 is not valid root device...
> Could not find the root block device in.

Is AHCI set up correctly in your BIOS? Try toggling it and see if that
helps.

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Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Thursday 10 April 2008 15:04:56 Amar Cosic wrote:
>
>
>> Block device /dev/sda3 is not valid root device...
>> Could not find the root block device in.
>>
>
> Is AHCI set up correctly in your BIOS? Try toggling it and see if that
> helps.
>
>
On these lines, what CPU does this thing use? AFAIK Lilo has some issues
with newer (specifically AMD64 and 64-bit systems) hardware. I'm aware
that this server is equipped with an Intel CPU, but could it be that
Lilo simply doesn't support your hardware?

Unfortunately, it is proving harder than I expected to find a list of
Lilo supported hardware.

-Hal
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