I am trying to install Gentoo 2008.0 on a VirtualBox vm. (Gentoo is listed as officially supported, so I don't think the vm is a problem) I followed all the instructions rather closely, mostly just copy and pasting commands. My partition set up is the same as the book's. I compiled the kernel manually, set Grub, and rebooted. Got the Grub screen, but choosing the default entry gives me a blank screen. I tried the rescue entry, which at least gave me the following output (after a few screens of normal boot messages; this is the only part that looked wrong to me):
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Root-NFS: No NFS server available, giving up
VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy
VFS: insert root floppy and press ENTER
...
Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions
<list of ramx (driver?)>
<list of hda partitions>
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Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(2,0)
I think I did something in my kernel config that messed this up. I am relatively familiar with linux, but have only recently been getting into the kernel guts, and I have made some pretty dumb mistakes (my favorite is when I first booted into my manually configured Gentoo kernel (2006.0) for the first time. For a moment I was enraptured with the sense of freedom and accomplishment at my achievement... open source at it's finest.. it was beautiful...
A few moments later I hurriedly booted back into my genkernel and ran through menuconfig to enable HID support...)
Anyways, could someone give me a pointer here?
Thanks!
