From: no@mail.de   
      
   Hi people,   
   I have installed the latest gentoo linux distribution and I don't know   
   what I am missing in my installation, specially the last gentoo   
   installation worked for me fine.   
      
   At booting I recive the error message:   
      
   "Block device /dev/sda5 is not a valid root device."   
      
   Hard disk is a SATA one, with a Core2Duo machine.   
      
      
   What am I doing wrong?   
      
   for any help solving my problem, I would thank you kindly.   
      
      
   Tamer   
      
      
   content of my fstab:   
   # /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's safe to drop the noatime options if you want and to   
   # switch between notail / tail freely.   
   #   
   # The root filesystem should have a pass number of either 0 or 1.   
   # All other filesystems should have a pass number of 0 or greater than 1.   
   #   
   # See the manpage fstab(5) for more information.   
   #   
      
   #                                    
      
      
   # NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.   
   /dev/sda1               /boot           ext2            noauto,noatime  1 2   
   /dev/sda5               /               ext3            noatime         0 1   
   /dev/sda6               /opt            ext3            noatime         0 1   
   /dev/sda7               /usr/local      ext3            noatime         0 1   
   /dev/sda8               /home           ext3            noatime         0 1   
   /dev/sda9               none            swap            sw              0 0   
   /dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom      audo            noauto,ro       0 0   
   #/dev/fd0               /mnt/floppy     auto            noauto          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)   
   shm                     /dev/shm        tmpfs   
   nodev,nosuid,noexec     0 0   
      
   and grub.conf:   
      
   grub.conf:   
      
   # This is a sample grub.conf for use with Genkernel, per the Gentoo handbook   
   #   
   http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=10#doc_chap2   
   # If you are not using Genkernel and you need help creating this file, you   
   # should consult the handbook. Alternatively, consult the   
   grub.conf.sample that   
   # is included with the Grub documentation.   
      
   default 0   
   timeout 30   
      
   title Gentoo Linux 2.6.25-r7   
   root (hd0,0)   
   kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.25-gentoo-r7 root=/dev/ram0   
   init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sda5   
   initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.25-gentoo-r7   
      
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