From: user@example.net   
      
   Wim Cossement wrote:   
      
   > I knew there was a good article on the Gentoo wiki explaining kinda   
   > everything but the site seems down..   
      
   The site had a bad hard drive crash and no backup, so all the data was lost.   
      
      
   > I built in everything I could, including ramdisk/initrd stuff (but I   
   > don't need to use that I guess or not?),   
      
   Only if you built what you need to do the inital kernel boot as modules,   
   otherwise no.   
      
   > device   
   > mapper and RAID support, some SATA drivers but I can't seem to get my   
   > root file system mounted.   
   >   
   > Configuring GRUB was a bit akward but it seems to work.   
   >   
   > This is what I did:   
   >   
   > grub --device-map=/dev/null   
      
   This isn't so good, as you can't load it from /dev/null, store it in the same   
   directory as everything else regarding grub.   
      
      
   > grub> device (hd0) /dev/mapper/isw_bffdiiiage_Volume0   
   > grub> root (hd0,0)   
   >  Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83   
   > grub> setup (hd0,0)   
   >   
   > This went okay and /etc/fstab should be fine too (using /dev/dm-1 and so   
   > on) but when I rebooted my machine I get the Grub screen and then the   
   > kernel gets loaded but then it panics because of an unmountable root   
   > file system.   
   >   
   > This is my grub.conf snippet:   
   >   
   > splashimage (hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz   
   >   
   > title Gentoo 2.6.29-r5   
   > kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.29-r5 root=/dev/mapper/isw_bffdiiiage_Volume03   
   > dodmraid udev   
   >   
   > Anything I'm doing wrong?   
      
   did you add support for ext2 (gosh, who does use that one nowadays?).   
      
      
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