Hi,

I've tried to installe Gentoo 1.4. as described in in the Gentoo
documentation. The only thing that I did not like say say in the docu: I
have no extra boot partition.

When I start booting, I get the message "Root Block device unspecified or
not detected"

this is my /etc/fstab (of my Gentoo installation)

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/fstab,v 1.13 2003/07/17
19:55:18 azarah Exp $
#
# 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*option s*if*you*want*and*to
# switch between notail and tail freely.

#
<fs>******************<mountpoint>****<type>****** ****<opts>******************<dump
pass>

# NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
#/dev/BOOT**************
boot***********ext2************noauto,noatime***** *****1*1
/dev
hdc6***************/***************reiserFS********default************ *****1*1
/dev
hda2***************none************swap*********** *sw**********************0*0
/dev/cdrom/cdrom********/mnt
cdrom******iso9660*********noauto,ro************** *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*file s)
# Adding the following line to /etc/fstab should take care of this:

none********************/dev
shm********tmpfs***********defaults*************** *0*0

and this is my Grub config:

gfxmenu (hd0,2)/boot/message
color white/blue black/light-gray
default 0
timeout 8

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: SuSE###
title SuSE
****kernel*(hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz*root=/dev/hda3*vga=791*hdd=ide-scsi
****initrd*(hd0,2)/boot/initrd

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows 1###
title windows 1
****root*(hd0,0)
****makeactive
****chainloader*+1

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows 2###
title windows 2
****root*(hd1,0)
****makeactive
****chainloader*+1

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title failsafe
****kernel*(hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz*root=/dev/hda3*ide=nodma*apm=off*acpi=off
vga=normal nosmp maxcpus=0 disableapic 3
****initrd*(hd0,2)/boot/initrd

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: Gentoo###
title Gentoo
****root(hd1,5)
****kernel*(hd1,5)/boot/kernel-2.4.24*root=/dev/hdc6*vga=791
****initrd*(hd1,5)/boot/initrd-2.4.24


Can anybody help ?