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Hi, |
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This is due to ATA/ATAPI (DEPRECATED) being disabled in newer kernels, |
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replaced by Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers. |
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Make sure you enabled this support properly. |
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In my case that happened to me as well, on a remote computer, which was my |
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mother's box... |
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Anyway, in fstab /dev/sdXX shoud work, at least I made this change on a |
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couple of machines and that went fine. |
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Cheers, |
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JM |
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On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 4:46 AM, Lindsay Haisley <fmouse-gentoo@×××.com>wrote: |
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> I'm caught between a rock and a hard place. |
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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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> 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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> 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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> 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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> 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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> -- |
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> Lindsay Haisley | "Everything works if you let it" |
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> 512-259-1190 | |
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> http://www.fmp.com | |
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Jean-Marc |