Been a linode customer for about 2 hours, and want to roll my own Gentoo on my linode 384.

I have:

- Booted Finnix
- Partitioned disk
- Expanded stage3 tarball and portage snapshot
- Edited inittab (added c0 for tty0)
- Created fstab
- Ran caker's script to create /dev/ubd*

When I boot my new profile, it returns:

helper_main(dfelicia, /dev/vg1/dfelicia-42858, 0, , 1): mount failed: File exists

I'm new to UML, so must be missing something obvious. Can someone give me a hint?

OK, I figured out lish a bit, and see the problem is that my filesystem is not found:

UDF-fs: No partition found (1)
No filesystem could mount root, tried:  reiserfs ext3 ext2 cramfs minix msdos vfat iso9660 romfs fuseblk udf jfs xfs
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(98,0)

I set it up like so, is this not allowed?

Disk /dev/ubdb: 19.3 GB, 19327352832 bytes
128 heads, 32 sectors/track, 9216 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4096 * 512 = 2097152 bytes

    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/ubdb1               1         123      251888   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/ubdb2   *         124        9216    18622464   83  Linux

My fstab looks like:

/dev/ubda1              none            swap            sw              0 0
/dev/ubda2              /               reiserfs        noatime         0 1
none                    /proc           proc            defaults
shm                     /dev/shm        tmpfs           nodev,nosuid,noexec     0 0

Hello,

You can ignore the helper_main error message.

I think what you need is to set a custom root device in your configuration profile. Our setup expects / to be /dev/ubda. Yours is /dev/ubda1. There's a setting for this in your config profile. Save, reboot.

Just so you know, partitioning your virtual disk drives will prevent you from being able to utilize our resizing features.

-Chris

OK, less than 3 hours in, and I am totally impressed! I can't believe you replied to my post, already!

Setting custom root in my profile did the trick.

I'm gonna like this thing, I can tell...

You're welcome -- glad I could help.

Enjoy!

-Chris