[gentoo-user] Re: kernel configuration problem -- genkernel: no irq handler; manual config: root filesystem could not be mounted r/w

[rocwhite168]

Dale <rdalek1967 <at> gmail.com> writes:
 
>
> Do you have SATA drives or IDE?  If you have IDE, try changing your
> fstab and grub line from sda5 to hda5.  That error is caused by that
> pretty much every time.  Keep in mind, it doesn't matter what the drive
> reports itself as when booted off the CD, it only matters how the kernel
> YOU built sees it.  It can be set up to see it either way.  I have IDE
> and mine still sees it as hda, hdb etc except for my SATA drive that is
> hooked up to a card.  That one is sda.
>
> If you have SATA drives, I'm back to clueless but thinking on it.
>
> Dale
>

I don't know why my reply through the Gmane system didn't get posted...

Yes, I'm pretty sure my hard drive is SATA, and also I tried changing sda 
to hda, but it wouldn't help anyway...

Thanks!

Roc