at boot (can't open root device /dev/hda6)

[gabriela254]

Hi!

I have gentoo and after I updated the system,
it won't boot

First kernel steps OK but then :

* Starting udev ...

* Checking root filesystem ...
failed to open the device /dev/hda6 No such file or directory

then enter password or press CTRL D

if i enter the password, i'm logged readonly on my /dev/hda6 partition
My hard drive is OK if I boot on a liveCD the partition is OK ...

I checked my fstab, my grub.conf, and tried fsck and everything looks fine and normal....

please any idea may help....

[d38dm8nw81k1ng]

post your fstab, grub.conf and the output of

fdisk -l

that's a little L btw

[gabriela254]

Hi! thanks for your fast reply...
/etc/fstab

# <fs> <mountpoint> <type> <opts> <dump/p$
# NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults,noatime 1 2
/dev/hda6 / reiserfs noatime 0 1
159.90.9.211:/home /home nfs auto,rw 0 1
159.90.9.209:/mnt/musica /mnt/musica nfs auto,rw 0 0
/dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0

# NOTE: The next line is critical for boot!
proc /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 files)
shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec




Grub .conf

timeout 30
default 0
title Gentoo linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel /kernel-2.6.12.5 root=/dev/hda6

fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 12 96358+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 13 4865 38981722+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 13 43 248976 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda6 44 2475 19535008+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 2476 4865 19197643+ 83 Linux

[d38dm8nw81k1ng]

try putting defaults into the <opts> for /dev/hda6 (the bit with noatime on).