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From: Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: WAS [.. min install isos] gentoo vm guest not booting
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 01:04:58
Message-Id: 87boxla1xx.fsf@newsguy.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] WAS [.. min install isos] gentoo vm guest not booting by Neil Bothwick
1 Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> writes:
2
3 > On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 20:18:57 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
4 >
5 >> But now that I tried booting, I think I'm missing some kind of driver
6 >> from the kernel build... boot is not able to find my root on sda3.
7 >> And has a kernel panic.
8 >>
9 >> I remember having a heck of a time about scuzy drivers last time too.
10 >> A couple years ago
11 >>
12 >> I didn't think to get the right wording before rebooting into
13 >> SystemRescueCD and am now chrooted into the vm again.
14 >
15 > Reboot the VM into System Rescue Cd and run lspci -k to see which
16 > controller you have and which driver it uses.
17
18 Haa... good idea and I once knew to do that too. But that was before
19 the truly `macro' senility set in ...
20
21 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440FX - 82441FX PMC [Natoma] (rev 02)
22 00:01.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 ISA [Natoma/Triton II]
23 00:01.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
24 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH VirtualBox Graphics Adapter
25 00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 02)
26 00:04.0 System peripheral: InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH VirtualBox Guest Service
27 00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801AA AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
28 00:06.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Intrepid USB
29 00:07.0 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 08)
30 00:0d.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
31
32 Seemed to have been the PIIX4 item and now I seem to have gotten the
33 drivers that I needed but now the bootup freezes just after finding
34 the drives.
35
36 Something about write protecting kernel text and read-only data.
37 Then another odd one:
38
39 atkbd serio0: Spurious NAK on isa0060/serio0. Some program might be
40 trying to access hardware directly.
41
42 I've never seen those message before. A tail of boot messages posted
43 here: www.jtan.com/~reader/vu2/disp.cgi
44
45 I thought it was stuck at the `Write protect' lines, but after a hefty
46 wait the last line appeared (quoted above). And now does appear to be
47 truly stuck.
48
49 Full kernel config here:
50
51 www.jtan.com/~reader/vu_txt/disp.cgi