Root filesystem will not mount at boot

chris2_at_cs.mun.ca
Date: 11/28/04 

Date: 28 Nov 2004 07:25:48 -0800

I really cannot figure this problem out for the life of me... I used to
have gentoo 1.4 installed on my system with kernel 2.6.7, and I had no
problems booting. I since removed linux, and am now trying to
re-install, and nothing I do will work.

grub.conf seems perfectly fine, there is nothing faulty with my kernel
line. I've re-compiled my kernel with and without Virtual file system
(shm fs) and it does the same thing, it just says

Kernel panic - VFS: cannot mount root fs on hdc3

or something along those lines

This is a Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop, with my boot partition as hdc1,
swap on hdc2 and root on hdc3 (reiserfs)

Any suggestions?

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