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 1P6ori-0002iu-8l for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 18:18:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E7273E0A59; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 18:18:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtprelay-b11.telenor.se (smtprelay-b11.telenor.se [62.127.194.20]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9D15E0A59 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 18:18:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ipb4.telenor.se (ipb4.telenor.se [195.54.127.167]) by smtprelay-b11.telenor.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E21AE9FF4 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 20:18:45 +0200 (CEST) X-SENDER-IP: [85.229.207.46] X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AmgWAHs3uExV5c8uPGdsb2JhbAAHgxiEUos6jgYBAQEBNa4Lkj+BIoMzdAQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.57,337,1283724000"; d="scan'208";a="1681788420" Received: from c-2ecfe555.017-72-73746f39.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se (HELO [192.168.1.5]) ([85.229.207.46]) by ipb4.telenor.se with ESMTP; 15 Oct 2010 20:18:45 +0200 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with new install From: Per-Erik Westerberg To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <201010151129.18927.mdiehl@diehlnet.com> References: <201010151129.18927.mdiehl@diehlnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 20:17:41 +0200 Message-ID: <1287166661.4648.13.camel@tux.homenetwork> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 62900f25-0a16-4e63-a6f7-8441aa1b2aba X-Archives-Hash: a6bdcfa67899ea7afee4db82b7aa125c fre 2010-10-15 klockan 11:29 -0600 skrev Mike Diehl: > Hi all. > > I've never had this much trouble with a server before, but I've been pulling > my hair out. > > The install seemed to go well, but when I rebooted it from it's own hard > drive, it fails. fsck claims that it can't open /dev/sda3 or that the > superblock doesn't describe a valid ext2 filesystem. > > However, when I reboot from the live CD, it mounts just fine and fsck says > it's clean. > > Here is the /etc/fstab: > /dev/sda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2 > /dev/sda3 / ext2 noatime 0 1 > /dev/sda2 none swap sw 0 0 > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro 0 0 > shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 > > Here is the /boot/grub/grub.conf file: > default 0 > timeout 30 > splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz > > title Gentoo Linux > root (hd0,0) > kernel /bzImage root=/dev/sda3 > > I've verified that ext2 and ext3 are in the kernel statically. I've also > compiled in ALL of the SATA drivers, statically. > > What am I missing? > Hi, I had exactly the same problem when I did a reinstall, I used the kernel ".config" I got from the live CD (zcat /proc/config.gz > .config) as a base when configuring the kernel. I solved it by not using that and instead start from scratch without an initial ".config". I guess that there were some options that was conflicting. BR / P-E