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On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Paul Hartman |
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<paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Paul Hartman |
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>> <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>>> Hi again, |
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>>>> Same new machine - new thread so as to not confuse the other thread |
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>>>> about flags. |
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>>>> I made enough headway with grub to get it to find a kernel and try |
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>>>> to boot, but fails with the message: |
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>>>> VFS: Cannot open root device "sda2" or unknown-block(2,0) |
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>>>> Please append a correct "root=" boot option; Here are the available partitions: |
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>>>> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(2,0) |
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>>>> Note that is lists nothing when it says 'Here are the available partitions:' |
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>>> It really seems like it's missing the appropriate filesystem driver to me. |
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>>> Since you mentioned ext2 and ext3 built into the kernel but not ext4, |
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>>> I wonder if the auto-detect is trying to mount your partition as ext4 |
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>>> type? Try to add the rootfstype=ext3 (or whatever your root FS type |
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>>> is) to your boot line to force it to use the specific filesystem |
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>>> driver you want. |
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>> In this case it was the chipset drivers not being built in. I'm now |
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>> booting successfully into Gentoo, albeit a very stripped down |
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>> nothing-but-install-CD system. |
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>> At least now, as far as Gentoo is concerned, I can work with tools on |
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>> the hard drive and maybe see what I can make the machine do. hdparm |
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>> says 65MB/Sec so I've got enough disk speed to make an emerge @world |
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>> go reasonably fast. top shows all 4 processors. This is my first SMP |
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>> machine running Gentoo. I'm looking forward to it. My graphic |
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>> performance (not important to me as I do mostly audio stuff) will be |
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>> low as I'm using the 900MHz Intel VGA that's built into the processor |
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>> of the i5-661, not the chipset, so far less traffic to the North |
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>> Bridge if I understand correctly. We'll see. |
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>> I'll be back. Windows still doesn't boot and I don't so far think it's |
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>> a grub problem but I need to do some research on the error messages... |
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>> Thanks! |
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> Glad you got it working. Gentoo on SMP is a match made in heaven. :) |
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> Also, if you're using Windows 7 in dual-boot on there beware of some |
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> possible conflicts with GRUB: |
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> http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014915o-2000498448b,00.htm |
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thanks for the pointer. I'll be careful. I'm still on XP and if I've |
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got enough power I may try to run most of my Windows stuff in vmware |
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and never go to Win 7. We'll see. |
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I may need to some back and ask some questions about grub and |
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dual-boot anyway as I expect it was my grub install that corrupted the |
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existing Windows installation but I don't know yet. |
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Again, thanks! |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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