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Hikaru79
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 Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 2:27 am Post subject: Cannot boot gentoo after enabling framebuffer |
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I just went through the Gentoo Wiki's guide on the framebuffer. I set it all up and rebooted. Good news: The framebuffer works! Really pretty 
Bad news: When it tries to boot, it gets this error a few seconds in: | Code: | mount: Mounting devfs on /dev failed: no such device
Error opening file ".devfsd" No such file or directory |
I'm assuming this problem is because I was messing around with my grub.conf (the Wiki told me to  ). Here's my grub.conf file -- can anyone please let me know what's wrong with it? | Code: | default 0
timeout 0
title=Gentoo Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel /kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 init=linuxrc ramdisk=8192 video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,1024x768-32@70 splash=silent,theme:emergence
initrd /initrd-2.6.11-gentoo-r5 |
Thanks in advance! 
EDIT: I just realized this info might be useful: my boot partition is on hda1 and my root filesystem is on hda3. (this is the way the Gentoo handbook did it, and I just followed their lead )
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popcan
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| Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 4:04 am Post subject: |
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was going to help you in #gentoo but you ran away too fast...
you're using genkernel, so shouldn't you have a real_root=/dev/hda3 on your kernel line? i've been out of touch with genkernel for a while but i remember that being the case... add that back in and see if there's a change |
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Hikaru79
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| Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 11:05 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for your reply, popcan!
I did what you suggested. Here was my updated grub.conf file: | Code: | default 0
timeout 0
title=Gentoo Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel /kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 init=linuxrc ramdisk=8192 video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,1024x768-32@70 splash=silent,theme:emergence real_root=/dev/hda3
initrd /initrd-2.6.11-gentoo-r5 |
As you see, I have added real_root=/dev/hda3 in (as a kernel option -- was this wrong?). But it didn't help... in fact, it made the error longer. Here's what my error says now:
| Code: | mount: Mounting devfs on /dev failed: no such device
Error opening file ".devfsd" No such file or directory
Determining root device...
Block device /dev/hda3 is not a valid root device |
:'( So I still can't boot up...any other suggestions?
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popcan
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| Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 4:36 pm Post subject: |
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are you using the gentoo wiki guide here for fbsplash: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash
it almost sounds like you replaced the initrd needed to boot the system with the initrd with just the picture in it |
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Hikaru79
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| Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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| popcan wrote: | are you using the gentoo wiki guide here for fbsplash: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash
it almost sounds like you replaced the initrd needed to boot the system with the initrd with just the picture in it |
Ehh? All I did was emerge the package, run "genkernel --menuconfig --gensplash=emergence all", edit my grub.conf file to what I posted above (basically, just added the video: kernel option), and reboot... what have I done wrong? :'(
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