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Please send us your `emerge --info`, /etc/fstab, grub/lilo/smthng |
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config and kernel config for the 2.6.29. |
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By the way, why not gentoo-sources-2.6.36-r5? I hope you have a good |
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reason to run a system as ancient as that. Your system is swarming with |
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widely known security holes. I suppose it's theoretically possible to |
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have a desktop protected by some special means from all the real threats |
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an actively used desktop is facing, but I wonder if you use any such |
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means. Also, by upgrading to a little less ancient versions than 2.6.29 |
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you won't have the same situation like now boomerang back at you in the |
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near future. |
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-rz |
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Lindsay Haisley (Sat, 19 Mar 2011 23:46:06 -0500): |
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> I'm caught between a rock and a hard place. |
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> |
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> I've been running this desktop box using kernel 2.6.23-gentoo-r3 and |
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> have come to the point at which there are too many dependencies and |
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> reverse dependencies, so I _have_ to upgrade to kernel 2.6.29-gentoo-r5 |
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> and have been unable to bring the system up in the new kernel. Here's |
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> what's happening. |
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> |
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> The newer kernel requires a newer version of udev, which I emerged. The |
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> system came up with a root device of some sort mounted, I think in |
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> single-user mode, but couldn't mount other devices. |
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> |
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> So I changed the main drive designations to UUID's in /etc/fstab, |
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> re-emerged the newer udev, and tried again. This time I got a message |
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> that the kernel needed a root parameter at boot time. It seems that all |
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> my /dev/hda? drives have been renamed /dev/sda? so I set gave |
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> "root=/dev/sda4" as a kernel parameter and got a little further. After |
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> "Checking root filesystem" in the boot sequence, I got a message that |
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> the UUID for the root filesystem wasn't understood in /etc/fstab. |
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> |
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> So I set the root filesystem in /etc/fstab to /dev/sda4, and got the |
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> same error - that "/dev/sda4" was not understood either, although the |
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> kernel seemed to understand this just fine as a boot parameter, and once |
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> again, I'm dumped into a very limited single-user mode. |
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> |
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> So I'm stuck! I had to boot from a rescue disk, back-version to |
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> udev-141 and revert to kernel 2.6.23-gentoo-r3 to get my desktop back. |
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> What do I need to put into /etc/fstab to satisfy the kernel? I need to |
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> move forward with this, but I need my desktop system to run my business. |
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> Any _real_ suggestions will be welcome. Please be aware that I'm no |
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> Linux novice, so don't give me novice advice. I've been building, |
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> running, and getting paid to admin Linux systems since 1995. |
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> |