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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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