If that doesn't work, try doing the same in /etc/fstab (you will need to
manually mount your root partition in run level 1). This worked for me.

Kari

"Ivar Ylvisaker" <ylvisaki@erols.com> wrote in message
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> 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.
>
> Try adding root=/dev/hdxx to the kernel line in the grub.conf file.
> Substitute the actual partition of your root for hdxx.
> Look at the grub.conf.sample file for examples.
>
> Ivar