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On Thursday 26 April 2007 17:05, Iván Pérez Domínguez wrote: |
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> Looks like I've come with a different situation now: |
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> I installed Ubuntu in a different partition, it works fine. |
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> I took it's kernel's config and tried to recompile gentoo's with it. |
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> Things are a little better now, but looks like it cannot find /dev/hda2 |
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> (my root partition) nor /dev/sda2. Since no root can be found, it cannot |
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> boot, and remains asking for the root password. If I log in, I cannot |
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> access my files in any way. I don't know why. |
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> On the other hand, I also tried to boot Gentoo using Ubuntu's kernel by |
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> setting root=/dev/sda2 (Gentoo's root partition) instead of |
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> root=/dev/sda3 (Ubuntu's). It goes perfectly (it even mounts the root |
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> partition), but stops after trying to remount proc (it cannot be mounted |
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> because it has already been mounted) since it's considered a critical task. |
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> Any ideas? |
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> Shall I send the new kernel config as well? |
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> btw, is there any web site with a huge database with config files or |
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> parts of them for different hardware, distributions (if applicable), and |
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> kernels? (I already did my homework trying to find it) If not, I think |
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> that would be a great idea. |
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> |
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> Iván Pérez Domínguez wrote: |
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> > Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: |
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> >> Hi, |
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> >> |
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> >> On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:07:38 +0200 |
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> >> |
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> >> Iván Pérez Domínguez <ivanperezdominguez@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >>> I'm having another problem, this time it's a kernel related problem. |
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> >>> I'm currently using kernel 2.6.13, and most things work fine. However, |
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> >>> when I try to update to a newer kernel (say 2.6.17 or 2.6.20), my |
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> >>> laptop hangs after detecting the hard disk. If I don't use initrd, it |
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> >>> stops when udev is loaded. |
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> >> |
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> >> What's the last (few lines of) message on screen? |
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> >> |
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> >> Did you configure your kernel to use the new libata stuff instead of |
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> >> traditional IDE drivers? |
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> > |
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> > I don't know. That might be the problem. |
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> > |
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> > The old kernel config (2.6.13) is attached. I tried to change it but |
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> > couldn't find any good combination. |
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> > |
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> >> -hwh |
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> > |
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> > Cheers, |
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> > Ivan. |
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Can you provide the LSPCI output and the .config for your kernel? |
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