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zak89

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Registered: 2008-09-25

Posts: 11

Can't Boot my New Arch install

I just installed Arch Linux Overlord. The root fs is ext3, on /dev/sdb3. The install boots up fine, till I get the following message:

No filesystem could mount root, tried:
Kernel Panic: Could not sync VFS: Unable to mount root filesystem on unknown block, (0,0)

This is a fresh install, following the wiki guides. Nothing special, very vanilla. What is going wrong here?

Last edited by zak89 (2008-10-04 14:00:18)

zak89

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Registered: 2008-09-25

Posts: 11

Re: Can't Boot my New Arch install

Quick correction: I did make one deviation; I skipped installing the bootloader (I have several other OS's on this machine that usually aren't automatically recognized), and added the following entry to my Grub menu.lst

title Arch Linux 2008.6
    root (hd1,2)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sdb3 vga=0x305

Is this a problem?

ghostHack

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From: Bristol UK

Registered: 2008-02-29

Posts: 261

Re: Can't Boot my New Arch install

Quick correction: I did make one deviation; I skipped installing the bootloader (I have several other OS's on this machine that usually aren't automatically recognized), and added the following entry to my Grub menu.lst

title Arch Linux 2008.6
    root (hd1,2)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sdb3 vga=0x305

Is this a problem?

You need to add the initrd line, you also want to add ro to the kernel line

title Arch Linux 2008.6
    root (hd1,2)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sdb3 ro vga=0x305
    initrd /boot/kernel26.img

zak89

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Registered: 2008-09-25

Posts: 11

Re: Can't Boot my New Arch install

Thanks. I actually figured it out moments after my last post after a glance at the grub page in the wiki (I am writing from my new Arch install). Since kernel26.img didn't have a initrd anywhere in the name I didn't recognize it! Dummy me.

Thanks again!