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On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 16:55, Andy Dustman wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 18:24, Collin Starkweather wrote: |
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> > NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0 |
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> > ds: no socket drivers loaded! |
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> > VFS: Cannot open root device "sda5" or 08:05 |
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> > Please append a correct "root=" boot option |
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> > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:05 |
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> > The "root=" kernel option is set correctly in /boot/grub/grub.conf so I |
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> > am a bit mystified. |
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> > Someone mentioned to me that I need to make an initrd for SCSI because |
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> > of some chicken-and-egg problem during boot. Here I'm a bit stuck |
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> > because I don't see much documentation on initrd in the Gentoo |
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> > installation docs other than in the mention of genkernel. |
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Thanks so much! I recompiled the kernel with SCSI and ext3 statically |
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compiled and it is now booting. |
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I'm getting an |
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Oops: 0000 |
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... |
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<1>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual \ |
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address 0000010c |
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now so I've clearly got some more to think about. (Google tells me |
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there's something called oops tracing I need to figure out.) But at |
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least it is booting. Taking baby steps .... |
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Cheers, |
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-Collin |
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Collin Starkweather, Ph.D. collin.starkweather@××××××××××××××××××.com |
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University of Colorado Department of Economics |
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