Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel hangs after detecting the hard disk

[Iván Pérez Domínguez]

Guillermo A. Amaral wrote:
> On Thursday 26 April 2007 17:05, Iván Pérez Domínguez wrote:
>> Looks like I've come with a different situation now:
>>
>> I installed Ubuntu in a different partition, it works fine.
>> I took it's kernel's config and tried to recompile gentoo's with it.
>>
>> Things are a little better now, but looks like it cannot find /dev/hda2
>> (my root partition) nor /dev/sda2. Since no root can be found, it cannot
>> boot, and remains asking for the root password. If I log in, I cannot
>> access my files in any way. I don't know why.
>>
>> On the other hand, I also tried to boot Gentoo using Ubuntu's kernel by
>> setting root=/dev/sda2 (Gentoo's root partition) instead of
>> root=/dev/sda3 (Ubuntu's). It goes perfectly (it even mounts the root
>> partition), but stops after trying to remount proc (it cannot be mounted
>> because it has already been mounted) since it's considered a critical task.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Shall I send the new kernel config as well?
>>
Here's the lspci. (It doesn't look very legible in my thunderbird, hope
it's not the same for you).

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O
Controller (rev 21)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP
Controller (rev 21)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2
EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 83)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface
Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE
Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M)
SMBus Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M)
AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility
Radeon 9600 M10]
02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705
Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)
02:04.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG
Network Connection (rev 05)
02:06.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4510 PC card Cardbus
Controller (rev 02)
02:06.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI4510 IEEE-1394 Controller

The kernel config is included as an attachment.

>> btw, is there any web site with a huge database with config files or
>> parts of them for different hardware, distributions (if applicable), and
>> kernels? (I already did my homework trying to find it) If not, I think
>> that would be a great idea.
>>
>> Iván Pérez Domínguez wrote:
>>> Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:07:38 +0200
>>>>
>>>> Iván Pérez Domínguez <ivanperezdominguez@×××××.com> wrote:
>>>>>    I'm having another problem, this time it's a kernel related problem.
>>>>> I'm currently using kernel 2.6.13, and most things work fine. However,
>>>>> when I try to update to a newer kernel (say 2.6.17 or 2.6.20), my
>>>>> laptop hangs after detecting the hard disk. If I don't use initrd, it
>>>>> stops when udev is loaded.
>>>> What's the last (few lines of) message on screen?
>>>>
>>>> Did you configure your kernel to use the new libata stuff instead of
>>>> traditional IDE drivers?
>>> I don't know. That might be the problem.
>>>
>>> The old kernel config (2.6.13) is attached. I tried to change it but
>>> couldn't find any good combination.
>>>
>>>> -hwh
>>> Cheers,
>>> Ivan.
>
> Can you provide the LSPCI output and the .config for your kernel?
>