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Greg Morin wrote: |
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> All: thank-you for the help so far. I have posted this on gentoo-user as |
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> well, and will continue to work with folks individually here or |
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> publically on that list. |
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> |
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> The responses so far have helped - Bigfish (Richard), I may respond |
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> directly to your RFI as you may be able to pinpoint the driver(s) I'm |
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> missing. I have added driver support in newly compiled kernels and |
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> gotten different errors - but I think I'm close. |
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> |
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> Again all - thanks. I'll pursue on gentoo-user... |
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> |
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> Gpm |
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> On 11/3/06, *Ladislav Laska* <ladislav.laska@×××××.com |
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> <mailto:ladislav.laska@×××××.com>> wrote: |
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> Andrew is right, this is wrong list. Anyway, you should check that |
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> modules for your IDE controller are loaded in initrd (or compiled into |
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> kernel). |
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> |
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> You can do this by selecting the second choice in grub (rescue). It |
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> will boot into busybox (a very basic shell) and you should be (un)able |
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> to mount filesystems. I don't know what exactly will busybox do for |
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> your, but maybe you will need to create device node by hand. |
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> For more informations, please write to gentoo-user list, or contact me |
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> personally (but NOT this list, unless this is gentoo-installer's |
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> problem). |
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> |
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> On 11/3/06, Greg Morin <gpmorin@×××××.com |
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> <mailto:gpmorin@×××××.com>> wrote: |
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> > Good day, |
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> > |
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> > I've installed (several times) on a ThinkPad T-40, trying both |
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> manual |
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> > kernel config and genkernel. I followed the online manual |
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> explicitly (I |
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> > think). The machine is currently loaded with the manual config. |
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> Either way, |
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> > the results are similar. |
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> > |
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> > Grub shows the two boot options, then begins loading the OS. |
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> > |
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> > The machine begins to boot, starts loading modules, then kernel |
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> panics: |
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> > VFS:Cannot open root device "hda3" or unknown-block(0,0) |
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> > Please append a correct "root=" boot option |
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> > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on |
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> > unknown-block(0,0) |
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> > |
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> > There is a single fixed disk: |
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> > Device Boot |
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> Size System Filesystem Mount |
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> > point |
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> > ======= ==== ===== ========= ========= ========= |
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> > /dev/hda1 * 32M Linux ext2 |
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> > /boot |
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> > /dev/hda2 3G Linux swap none |
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> > none |
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> > /dev/hda3 ~71G Linux ext3 |
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> > / |
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> > |
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> > I am able to mount and use these partitions after booting from CD. |
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> > /etc/fstab (/mnt/gentoo/etc/fstab when booted from disk) looks good. |
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> > |
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> > Filesystems ext2 and ext3 are compiled into the kernel. |
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> > |
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> > Grub details: |
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> > device.map |
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> > (hd0) /dev/hda |
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> > grub.conf |
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> > default 0 |
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> > timeout 5 |
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> > splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/spash.xpm.gz |
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> > |
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> > title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.17-r8 |
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> > root (hd0,0) |
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> > kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hda3 |
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> > |
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> > title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.17-r8 (rescue) |
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> > root(hd0,0) |
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> > kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hda3 |
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> init=/bin/bb |
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> > |
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> > I used grub-install /dev/hda with no errors. I've played |
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> around with the |
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> > "root=" entry, but to no avail - not sure I'm understanding this |
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> one... |
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> > |
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> > The kernel image appears to be valid, with no typos in filename/grub |
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> > entries. |
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> > |
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> > Any ideas? Seems that the kernel begins to load, but can't mount |
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> the root |
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> > filesystem? |
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> > Thank-you for any pointers. |
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> > |
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> > |
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> > -- |
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> > |
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There are also about 1000 posts about this on the forums and on the |
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"installing Gentoo" forum there is a specific thread on Grub errors and |
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how to deal with each one. |
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George |
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