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Woldamer
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 Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 3:24 pm Post subject: Can't boot: Can't open /dev/ROOT |
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Hi!
I try to test a gentoo in VMware.
So I get a mount error on booting:
| Code: | * checking root filesystem...
fschk.ext3: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/ROOT
/dev/ROOT:
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem |
So that's right, because my root partition is ext3 like your install guide descibe it to do.
And if enter my root pwd for maintance, I can't see any /dev/ROOT... "mount" tells me, that "/hda3" is already mounted as "/". So I don't understand that message :-/
Here my grub.conf:
| Code: | default 0
timeout 30
title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.14-r8
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/linux-2.6.14-hardened-r8-pax-grsec root=/dev/hda3 |
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forgotten1
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| Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 3:31 pm Post subject: |
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| That looks like an error in fstab. Mind posting that? |
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Woldamer
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| Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 3:48 pm Post subject: |
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You're right...
Okay, I've only to delete that mysterios line?
| Code: | # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# noatime turns off atimes for increased performance (atimes normally aren't
# needed; notail increases performance of ReiserFS (at the expense of storage
# efficiency). It's safe to drop the noatime options if you want and to
# switch between notail / tail freely.
#
# See the manpage fstab(5) for more information.
#
# <fs> <mountpoint> <type> <opts> <dump/pass>
# NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
/dev/BOOT /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/ROOT / ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/SWAP none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0
# NOTE: The next line is critical for boot!
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for
# POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink).
# (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will
# use almost no memory if not populated with files)
shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 |
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forgotten1
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| Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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| No, go back to the installation handbook, and review the information on fstab. You need to replace ROOT, BOOT, and SWAP with the actual devices. |
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bdm
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| Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 5:22 pm Post subject: Re: Can't boot: Can't open /dev/ROOT |
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| Woldamer wrote: | Hi!
I try to test a gentoo in VMware.
So I get a mount error on booting:
| Code: | * checking root filesystem...
fschk.ext3: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/ROOT
/dev/ROOT:
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem |
So that's right, because my root partition is ext3 like your install guide descibe it to do.
And if enter my root pwd for maintance, I can't see any /dev/ROOT... "mount" tells me, that "/hda3" is already mounted as "/". So I don't understand that message :-/
Here my grub.conf:
| Code: | default 0
timeout 30
title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.14-r8
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/linux-2.6.14-hardened-r8-pax-grsec root=/dev/hda3 |
Thanks |
Because you mentionned that /hda3 is already mount on '/'. I assume your /boot is mounted on hda1 and your swap partition is mounted on /hda2.
So maybe something like this:
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/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/hda3 / ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
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Also, right now fstab assumes your /boot is ext2 and / is ext3. If those aren't correct, change them to the filesystem you set them up to at the begining of the instalation. And I'm pretty sure that if you used ReiserFS, that you need to compile those modules into the kernel, then re-compile your kernel. 
If that dosen't work, sorry. But i'm also no expert in Gentoo, but I'm learning. |
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