From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HmWtI-0002Ep-Qq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 11 May 2007 15:18:45 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4BFH2vV032697; Fri, 11 May 2007 15:17:02 GMT Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za (sqlprd.sybase.co.za [192.96.139.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4BF9LpT022779 for ; Fri, 11 May 2007 15:09:22 GMT Received: from localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id F30FA83430 for ; Fri, 11 May 2007 17:18:57 +0200 (SAST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at sybase.co.za Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 7CzlCcKTSf9P for ; Fri, 11 May 2007 17:18:52 +0200 (SAST) Received: from bard.sybase.co.za (bard.sybase.co.za [192.168.2.6]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 461EE83436 for ; Fri, 11 May 2007 17:18:52 +0200 (SAST) Received: from nazgul.sybase.co.za ([192.168.2.68]) by bard.sybase.co.za with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Fri, 11 May 2007 17:11:05 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8. Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 17:11:06 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <46444041.1040404@ergolight-sw.com> <200705111333.54395.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> <4644803D.6000005@ergolight-sw.com> In-Reply-To: <4644803D.6000005@ergolight-sw.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200705111711.06948.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 May 2007 15:11:05.0203 (UTC) FILETIME=[98638430:01C793DE] X-Archives-Salt: fc33a537-5415-4016-be85-ce7db6471cbb X-Archives-Hash: cbd07e30ab04c29e97419821a8fe0cc8 On Friday 11 May 2007, David Harel wrote: > Sorry for not providing details (was sure people will identify the > problem in a glance). > > > Upgrade is from 2.6.17-r8 OK, you seem to have run into the "Lets rip IDE out of the kernel and=20 replace it with ATA" thing that happened in 2.6.18... In menuconfig , under Drivers, there's a menu a little bit below the=20 IDE?MFM stuff. It's called SATA/PATA or similar. You will find=20 appropriate settings for your hardware there. I can't elabortae as I=20 don't know what you have, but you disk settings seem to be IDE > Attached the panic message: > > > VFS: cannot open root =A0device sda1 or unknown block (0,0) > > please append a correct "root=3D" boot option. > > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown - > block (0,0) Please, please, please always quote the correct error messages and leave=20 your personal evaluation out of it. See how the above says absolutely=20 nothing about ext3? But your original post was all about that, and=20 without the actual error and .config, we would have spent hours trying=20 to get your fs working, when in fault it is not faulty... =2D-=20 Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list