On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 10:13:15 GMT, "Trevor M. Lango" <tmlango@sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

>Huebner Andreas wrote:
>
>> Radek 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 ?
>>
>> It's possible that you forgot to include your filesystem drivers into
>> kernel.
>> Check if you are using filesystem support (ext2, ext3, reiserfs)
>> statically. Do not use modules for filesystem.
>
>If the drivers ARE present within the kernel it is also possible that
>entries within your /etc/fstab file are not properly specified.

He's having problems with his root device, which means he can't even see the
partition which /etc/ is on. It doesn't sound like an fstab problem to me.

Definately sounds like a filesystem kernel support or grub.conf problem.

Chris