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 1Q1V1j-0001QQ-Lz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 02:39:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1EBF11C044; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 02:38:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from shakti.fmp.com (shakti.fmp.com [208.81.244.105]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D01511C044 for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 02:38:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.16] ([::ffff:10.8.0.4]) (AUTH: LOGIN fmouse@fmp.com) by shakti.fmp.com with esmtp; Sun, 20 Mar 2011 21:38:08 -0500 id 000000000026BBD8.000000004D86BA10.0000561D Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] System problems From: Lindsay Haisley To: gentoo-desktop@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20110321021310.GA6358@comet> References: <1300596366.8325.30.camel@vishnu.fmp.com> <1300638963.1698.75.camel@ubuntu> <20110321021310.GA6358@comet> Organization: FMP Computer Services Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 02:38:07 +0000 Message-Id: <1300675087.8325.225.camel@vishnu.fmp.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-desktop@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-desktop@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.3 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 2d2a17fc7aa6e6e8a0c051c20060c95d On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 21:13 -0500, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > I also suspect What Jean-Marc said is the problem. I'd recommend > completely disabling everything in the old ATA section to ensure it > doesn't attempt to control any devices, while building the PATA driver > into the kernel and using root=/dev/sdXN in the grub parameters. If I use the stock configuration from the 2.6.36-gentoo-r5 kernel, won't this have the correct basic kernel facilities built in, at least as far as the deprecated IDE capabilities are concerned and the libata replacement? I assume the Gentoo devs modify kernels so that the default config settings are more appropriate than those which come with the vanilla kernel from the kernel devs, yes? Putting "root=/dev/sda4" on the kernel cmd line in grub actually worked, and got me a bit further in the boot process. The kernel obviously understood it. However later in the boot process, I got "Checking the root filesystem", following by an error message that the root filesystem spec of /dev/sda4 wasn't understood. This is a complaint about the root fs spec is in /etc/fstab, since I had been using a UUID spec there, and got an error at the same point in the boot-up about the UUID instead. > The module approach should also work, but I always get a little > suspicious that it might build something else into the kernel > unnecessarily that causes problems. I don't know. According to the the ebuild notes with udev, the IDE facility in the kernel is completely depricated and needs to be turned off entirely to prevent unexpected results. If I build IDE as a module, my concern is that the module will get auto-loaded and I'll be back in the same boat. So I'll use a more recent kernel and turn IDE off altogether and we'll see what happens. > > > My next step is to completely rebuild the kernel, using the config built > > into the distributed kernel source, making only the necessary mods for > > the box's hardware needs. I'll find a time window during the next few > > days to work on this. > > It might be a worthwhile step to boot from a LiveCD and run `lspci -k` > to identify the kernel modules. lsmod will probably give the same useful information. > If the pciutils version on the CD is too > old, `pcimodules` might work instead. Nope. The my rescue CD is up-to-date. Thanks! -- Lindsay Haisley | "Everything works if you let it" FMP Computer Services | (The Roadie) 512-259-1190 | http://www.fmp.com |