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

[i]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[i]

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
/dev/hda2 Swap
/dev/hda6 / XFS

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

Egil · n00b Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 12 Location: Milwaukee, WI

lx · Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2002 11:42 pm Post subject:

Don't Answer / LOCK THIS THREAD, ALREADY POSTED+ANSWERED

This is already answered (by me) in another forum. Amazed to suddenly find it here also, its got nothing to do with gcc 3.1 . Well everybody makes mistakes.

Cya lX.[
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fghellar · Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2002 4:00 am Post subject:

Already answered: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=4642.
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rac · Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2002 12:13 am Post subject:

GCC3 to Installing Gentoo.
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