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On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 10:07:20AM -0800, Tze John Tang wrote: |
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> hello, |
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> |
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> I attempted to install gentoo from the cd last night. I had no |
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> problems at all creating the base system, only when I was trying to |
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> boot it. I get a kernel panic as it tries to mount the root |
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> filesystem (08:02). |
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> I only have scsi drives in my system. I thought that scsi drivers |
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> may not be compiled into the default kernel image, so I recompiled |
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> the kernel (2.4.1-pre8) which is on the pre-2 cd, with those drivers. |
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> |
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> When I rebooted, all my scsi devices were detected, but I then got |
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> another kernel panic on mounting the root fs. |
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> |
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> My root partition is reiserfs, and I think the kernel does not know |
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> how to mount it. My question is, is reiserfs in 2.4.1-pre8, or do I |
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> have to get some patch? I configured using the menuconfig option, |
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> but I did not see reiserfs in the list. |
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Reiserfs is enabled in our default kernel. If you compile your own |
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kernel, you need to make sure that you enable it too. It's located |
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under the "filesystems" category under menuconfig, and is about 3 or |
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4 items down on the list. Of course, make sure that it's compiled in |
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to the kernel rather than being installed as a module. |
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Also, your problem could be related to you specifying the wrong |
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"root=/dev/hd??" option to GRUB. You could double-check this as well. |
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Best Regards, |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |
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