From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NYMz8-0000O0-Fp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:07:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A6DE4E061F; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:07:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f174.google.com (mail-yx0-f174.google.com [209.85.210.174]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 845B6E061F for ; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:07:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxe4 with SMTP id 4so1061647yxe.32 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:07:06 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=6pCX3oMsgk3jDHuoiBhyuz3yHZCF/FNRPWMBUCKhbrM=; b=X1Jv2VzvlqvQoeYnQKgWq/BP2vFHFvllK6agTUeoEyEiYF521rJyz8ZeZhOHktCMns bcYokSsY8cL0ioPYgFSWdNpu4IRvtVBQzOL9Qj3aMtKbNSPAhQUhj7fIMIGG1EprErml oAJ0YY441G/Eog/TESemkoJiWq4VIqg8BNQ78= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=VfM2joB4cbRskaPVF2EN747oVpzqavUEiyHVywG+LNotNQpcyjBCdYJcPM7jlD+giK Te05C4D7Le+EGQ/WtLY+J+RWzvclO4Ca1ZvIZ9d6QFqYmZglxd/CvOojsXpy6Z2E636O yEvUeNIKsI95MisiwpzWxj3DF2g1iE1jWV4BY= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.151.89.40 with SMTP id r40mr4426999ybl.157.1264180026217; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:07:06 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b1001220857t3356a5a1j9c2647f0d5710a2c@mail.gmail.com> References: <5bdc1c8b1001220804x1a6e5fe8n23e6654f70189a16@mail.gmail.com> <58965d8a1001220826w1155d2d8rde098b17fc35fb27@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b1001220857t3356a5a1j9c2647f0d5710a2c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:07:06 -0600 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 2bcc1fdbf0f43cbd Message-ID: <58965d8a1001220907l2828670dg960c5fc149a73b5@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] If CD boots then why won't the hard drive? From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 6402f461-5904-45dd-92a1-8cda607f714a X-Archives-Hash: 6592052634c7b8640a1cb7d307674fe7 On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Paul Hartman > wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> Hi again, >>> Same new machine - new thread so as to not confuse the other thread >>> about flags. >>> >>> I made enough headway with grub to get it to find a kernel and try >>> to boot, but fails with the message: >>> >>> VFS: Cannot open root device "sda2" or unknown-block(2,0) >>> Please append a correct "root=" boot option; Here are the available partitions: >>> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(2,0) >>> >>> Note that is lists nothing when it says 'Here are the available partitions:' >> >> It really seems like it's missing the appropriate filesystem driver to me. >> >> Since you mentioned ext2 and ext3 built into the kernel but not ext4, >> I wonder if the auto-detect is trying to mount your partition as ext4 >> type? Try to add the rootfstype=ext3 (or whatever your root FS type >> is) to your boot line to force it to use the specific filesystem >> driver you want. >> >> > In this case it was the chipset drivers not being built in. I'm now > booting successfully into Gentoo, albeit a very stripped down > nothing-but-install-CD system. > > At least now, as far as Gentoo is concerned, I can work with tools on > the hard drive and maybe see what I can make the machine do. hdparm > says 65MB/Sec so I've got enough disk speed to make an emerge @world > go reasonably fast. top shows all 4 processors. This is my first SMP > machine running Gentoo. I'm looking forward to it. My graphic > performance (not important to me as I do mostly audio stuff) will be > low as I'm using the 900MHz Intel VGA that's built into the processor > of the i5-661, not the chipset, so far less traffic to the North > Bridge if I understand correctly. We'll see. > > I'll be back. Windows still doesn't boot and I don't so far think it's > a grub problem but I need to do some research on the error messages... > > Thanks! Glad you got it working. Gentoo on SMP is a match made in heaven. :) Also, if you're using Windows 7 in dual-boot on there beware of some possible conflicts with GRUB: http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014915o-2000498448b,00.htm