Grub -Error 11: Unrecognized Device String

Peteroxxx · n00b Joined: 10 Jun 2002 Posts: 52 Location: Florida

I followed the install menu to the letter.. eh to the best of my ability...

GRUB splash loads on boot, I select My Gentoo Then get the following

root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is xtfs, Partition type 0x83
kernel /boot/bzImage
[Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0x14aad]
root=/dev/hda6
Error 11: Unrecognized device string

Can anyone tell me why this would happen or what stage of the install process I messed up??

my config is as follows:

/dev/hda1 Boot ext3 Primary
/dev/hda2 Swap Primary
/dev/hda6 / XFS Last logical partition of an extended partition

my menu.lst is as follows (Yes it's a L)

If I try to GRUB manually (command line) I get the same error on the last part. If i type BOOT manually anyway it tries to boot then fails when it tries to mount /proc [oops]

I included support for XFS (experimental) when I configured the kernel and i tried #make menuconfig, #make dep && etc again and i get the same thing.

Would love to get this thing working, I feel very close...

Thanks,

-Pete

delta407 · Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2002 10:03 pm Post subject:

What is your /boot/grub/menu.lst?

jtanner · Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2002 10:21 pm Post subject:

From the grub info page:

11 : Unrecognized device string
This error is returned if a device string was expected, and the
string encountered didn't fit the syntax/rules listed in the *Note
Filesystem::.

Don't forget that grub uses a different disk numbering scheme than linux. For example, /dev/hda6 would be (hd0,5).

Jim

lx

Peteroxxx · n00b Joined: 10 Jun 2002 Posts: 52 Location: Florida

Thanx for your fast replys you guys are awseome...You replied before I even got off the site!

My menu.lst looks like this...

root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda6

Changing my root(0,5) and putting kernel and root command together on the same line got me a little further along. Linux starts too boot but fails here...

* Mounting /proc [oops]

mount point /proc does not exist

enter root password for maintenance

They are right proc doesn't exist! Please don't tell me I have to reinstall Dohhh... What part of the installation does the /proc?

-Pete
Gentoo Linux Wannabe

lx · Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2002 11:19 pm Post subject: Re: My menu.lst

Peteroxxx · n00b Joined: 10 Jun 2002 Posts: 52 Location: Florida

There is no /proc directory in my root (/dev/hda6) I will double check the Install menu *instructions to see what I could have missed.

Yes it seems to be booting off of my root partition and not my /boot partition. but it's working so be it.

Thanks for your help.

delta407 · Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2002 12:09 am Post subject:

You're supposed to do mkdir /mnt/gentoo/proc, mount --bind /proc /mnt/gentoo/proc, IIRC.

Peteroxxx · n00b Joined: 10 Jun 2002 Posts: 52 Location: Florida

Ok I was able to fix the /proc problem per the instructions from this post:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=1461&highlight=mount+point+proc+exist

I got in my new (but bare) gentoo system.

It gave me a msg saying that DEVFS was not enabled and that I should recompile my kernel with DEVFS enabled. (I thought I did this?) Should I recompile?

So now that I am sort of running here...If I understand correctly..when you want to install a package you just type: #emerge xxxx ??

I typed #emerge kde Just to see what would happen and it started downloading. kewl! :lol:

Im not sure how this works or what kind of packages this works on. I am used to just download - tar - make - make install.

-Pete

Peteroxxx · n00b Joined: 10 Jun 2002 Posts: 52 Location: Florida

I am actually finding most of what I need to know in the docs. KDE is taking forever to install. Damn! and I don't even think I am going to use it.
Thanks for all your help guys.

-Peteroxxx