but after having completed the install, i've run into a problem getting it to boot the root FS. i get an error just like the one here:
http://dev.gentoo.org/~swift/tmp/kb-rootfs.html
or here:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-47 ... mount.html
but unfortunately, none of the recommended fixes there helped. my situation is as follows:
drive:
drive is 80 GB SATA drive
SATA support, as near as i can determine, is compiled into the kernel
kernel:
initial - gentoo-sources 2.6.16-r13
then tried gentoo-sources 2.6.16-r6
filesystems:
boot is ext2
root is ext3
both filesystems are supported by kernel
partitions:
disk is at /dev/sda rather than /dev/hda
/dev/sda1 (marked as boot) NTFS - Windows partition
/dev/sda2 IBM Windows restore partition (not in disk order)
/dev/sda3 ext2 - Linux boot
/dev/sda4 extended partition
/dev/sda5 - Linux swap
/dev/sda6 ext3 - Linux root
grub.conf:
Code: Select all
default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.16-r6
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.16-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/sda6from the second link above, i thought that the problem might lie within the kernel which apparently has a bug with SATA drives (see here: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138036) so i went backwards and installed a reported safe kernel - r6 - but that didn't work either. same error.
having tried most of the suggested approaches, i'm not without a good idea of how to proceed. any ideas or assistance would be greatly appreciated.



