From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A994B13888F for ; Tue, 6 Oct 2015 21:15:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D8D3A21C038; Tue, 6 Oct 2015 21:15:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gw2.antarean.org (gw2.antarean.org [141.105.125.208]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B198A21C002 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 2015 21:15:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gw2.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B94D8124C8F for ; Tue, 6 Oct 2015 21:14:33 +0000 () X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from gw2.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gw2.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id pY4NK3oiggLI for ; Tue, 6 Oct 2015 21:14:32 +0000 (%Z) Received: from data.antarean.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gw2.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FF1B124C7A for ; Tue, 6 Oct 2015 21:14:31 +0000 () Received: from andromeda.localnet (unknown [10.20.13.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 02B6D4C for ; Tue, 6 Oct 2015 23:13:27 +0200 (CEST) From: "J. Roeleveld" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Root device as UUID not properly detected Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2015 23:15:02 +0200 Message-ID: <1859238.rYv69SYfrM@andromeda> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.8 (Linux/4.0.5-gentoo; KDE/4.14.8; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20151006181959.GE2629@jmcf125-Acer-Arch.home> References: <20151006155925.GC2629@jmcf125-Acer-Arch.home> <818729B0-3031-4B16-A953-3C192567AF2D@antarean.org> <20151006181959.GE2629@jmcf125-Acer-Arch.home> 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Archives-Salt: 0cb5db03-157b-4e5c-bf65-9a2698a6df25 X-Archives-Hash: 44689906c1a7a10ee73a87534f4aa682 On Tuesday, October 06, 2015 07:19:59 PM Jo=E3o Miguel wrote: > How do I know if any of these happen? >=20 > > Possible causes: > > 1. USB stick doesn't work as boot device >=20 > Well, it did with Arch, the boot partition has the boot, legacy_boot = and > esp flags. Plus if anything was to be problematic, I'd assume it woul= d > be BIOS or syslinux detection of the drive bootable device, not mount= ing. Ok, so scratch that one. > > 2. USB port is not supported by kernel >=20 > I'm not sure what you mean. Is there any option I should enable for > genkernel? I read on the Wiki page that It works with Arch, are you using the same kernel options now with Gent= oo? > > 3. You don't use root_delay as boot option >=20 > If that's what I think it is, I tell syslinux to wait 5 seconds. How do you tell it that? > It does > work. In every computer. It's when it starts loading modules and all,= > reaching the point where initrd needs to mount the root device that i= t > gives an error. I don't know how to tell it to wait there though. And= as > I said, even if I did, it wouldn't work on all computers, on some ini= trd > cant figure it out at all. I never used an initrd when building my own USB sticks. I was talking about: rootdelay=3D [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before atte= mpting to mount the root filesystem (See the file "kernel-parameters.txt" in the kernel Documentation) > > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity= . >=20 > No problem, thanks for the response. I'm just baffled with this error= . > Jo=E3o Miguel That's a default signature... :)