I am in the process of setting up a Gentoo system and I got all the way to the point where im suppose to reboot, however it comes up with:
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VFS: Cannot open root device "hde3" or unknown-block(0,0)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
 

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As far as the hde thats the correct drive, in fact the only hard drive in the system. hde1 is /boot, hde2 is swap, and hde3 is /
I installed grub for the bootloader here is my grub.conf

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default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.11-r9
root (hd0,0)
kernel /kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r9 root=/dev/hde3
 

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my fstab looks like this:

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/dev/hde1     /boot     ext2     defaults,noatime     1 2
/dev/hde3     /         ext3     noatime     0 1
/dev/hde2     none     swap     sw     0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0     /mnt/cdrom     iso9660     noauto,ro     0 0
none     /proc      proc      defaults     0 0
none     /dev/shm     tmpfs     defaults     0 0

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i verified in my bios nothing shows up on primary master or slave and secondary master is the dvd drive and secondary slave is a zip drive. so the hard drive is on another ide controller. it shows up in knoppix as hde. I also checked my config file for the kernel and I have ext2 and ext3 in it as Y. If I am missing something please let me know and ill add it. Also please keep in mind I know enough to follow walk through tutorials not much more then that.Thanks!