Fei Liu writes:

> Hello Group, I spend a whole day trying to get this to work. Here is my
> setup
>
> /dev/sda1         /         ext3       noatime       0 1
> /dev/sda2         swap
>
> grub is installed using the 'root (hd0,0)' and 'setup (hd0)', no problem.
>
> emerge kernel-sources worked fine.
>
> However everytime the system boots, it reports the VFS panic (no root
> system found problem). The kernel has built in ext2 and ext3 support.

Does it also have the right IDE drivers? This /dev/sda drive is SATA I
assume, is this configured correctly in the kernel, and is the SCSI stuff
also compiled directly into the kerne? Do you see kernel messages
identifying your IDE chipset, does "sda" appear there somewhere?

 Wonko
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