My error on reboot is this: Code: Gentoo initrd startup... STEP 1: Command line parsing STEP 2: Module loading ---- Scanning for uhci...skipping usbscore, module already loaded by us ---- Scanning for hid...no such module found ---- Scanning for usb-storage...no such module found ---- Scanning for sbp2...no such module found STEP 3: Mounting necessary filesystems per boot options Started divice managment daemon v1.3.25 for /dev STEP 4: Determining root device STEP 4a: Mounting root mount : Mounting /dev/hda3 on /newroot failed: Invalid argument Could not mount specifited ROOT, try again Root block device uncpecifited or not detected. Please specify a device to boot, or "shell" for a shell. Note: The install instructions say: Quote: If you're using genkernel 1.4 or newer from a GRP set, there's no need to specify a kernel: # genkernel Running the command genkernel by itself did not do anything. I was forced to run: Code: # genkernel all My fstab files looks like: Code: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # noatime turns off atimes for increased performance (atimes normally aren't # needed; notail increases performance of ReiserFS (at the expense of storage # efficiency). It is safe to drop the noatime options if you want and to # switch between notail and tail freely. # <fs> <mount point> <type> <opts> <dump/pass> # NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts. /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 1 /dev/hda3 / reiserfs noatime 0 0 /dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro,user 0 0 #NOTE: The next line is critical for boot! none /proc proc defaults 0 0 #glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for #POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink). # (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will # use almost no memory if not populated with files) # Adding the following line to /etc/fstab should take care of this: none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 My grub.conf looks like this: Code: default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=Gentoo Linux (genkernel 3.01beta8) root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-2.4.22-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 real_root=/dev/hda3 init=/linuxrc initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd-2.4.22-gentoo-r5 I see these other threads that discuss the same problem: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=129627&highlight=newroot+failed http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=127619&highlight=newroot+failed http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=129574&highlight=newroot+failed http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=129223&highlight=newroot+failed http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=126058&highlight=newroot+failed http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=128215&highlight=newroot+failed Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Forgot to specify version in the bug report: Version = 3.0.1_beta8
reiserfs not enabled in your kernel ??
I have had this problem too. The only way I could fix it was to run "genkernel --menuconfig all" and compile in reiserfs support directly, rather than as a module. Then everything was fine.
I have the exact same problem and I think reiserfs is correctly compiled in the kernel: nukien linux # grep REISER .config CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=y # CONFIG_REISERFS_CHECK is not set CONFIG_REISERFS_PROC_INFO=y Sources: /usr/src/linux-2.6.1-gentoo-r1/ Genkernel: 3.0.1_beta11
hmm, maybe busybox isn't properly detecting the FS type in a mount, I think I may have heard that ... if that's the case, I'll have to look into it further.
Just tried the newly unmasked (for stable x86) genkernel-3.0.1_beta12 and I still get the same problem.
*** Bug 41803 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
busybox in _beta12 is good if it's still happening, it's because you didn't compile reiserfs into your kernel.
