Fei Liu wrote:
> 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.
> The error hint is to supply root option during boot, but my boot
> command is this
> kernel /boot/kernel root=/dev/sda1
>
> Is there something missing that I didn't think of that's causing the
> failures? I followed the steps outlined here:
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-quickinstall.xml
>
> except I am using a 2 partition setup.
>
> Fei
>
Here is the complete grub.conf file:
more /boot/grub/grub.conf
default 0
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd0,0)/boot/message

title 2.6.24.4-default
  root (hd0,0)
  kernel /boot/kernel root=/dev/sda1 splash=silent showopts

/etc/fstab:
#/dev/BOOT         /boot       ext2        noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/sda1          /          ext3        noatime      0 1
/dev/sda2          none        swap        sw         0 0
#/dev/cdrom         /mnt/cdrom    audo        noauto,ro     0 0
#/dev/fd0          /mnt/floppy   auto        noauto       0 0

shm              /dev/shm     tmpfs      
nodev,nosuid,noexec   0 0

I am looking into the SCSI file system issue.

Fei
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