Stevan Blacklock wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 08:19:14 +0800, Chris Severn wrote:
>
>
>>On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 02:54:11 +0200, Radek <radi_boss@tlen.pl> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>I am totally new to Usenet :-) so don't be angry for me :-)
>>>I have a problem with my gentoo, I mean, J have a problem with
>>>kernel 2.6.7-r6 (gentoo dev sources). I' ve configured it as usual,
>>>compiled, copied to /boot (I' ve made two options in GRUB to boot new and
>>>old kernel) and I receive a error message during initialization :
>>>"can't mount root device, check "root" option in your GRUB"
>>>(it's not exactly like that but I don't remember)
>>>What's wrong ?
>>
>>Post the backup copy of your previous working grub.conf, and your new
>>grub.conf so we can take a look.
>>
>>Chris
>
>
> Check your grub.conf to make sure it's pointing to your boot partition,
> and try reinstalling grub.
>
Remember that when using grub the first harddrive is 0 and THE FIRST
PARTITION is also 0. Eg. hd(0,0). Check so you havn't made the most
common misstake with grub naming the partition as you're use to when
writing /dev/hda#

Here is my grub file:

title=Gentoo Linux 2.6 kernel
root (hd0,2)
kernel (hd0,2)/boot/2.6.5-gentoo-r1-4 root=/dev/hda6

The first root is the /boot partition, the "root=/dev/hda6" is the /
partition.