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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic
Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 08:51:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070525085115.019a9c8f@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d9a0a6da0705241744v17722ab5u110ee184d1a6bb5a@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, 24 May 2007 20:44:10 -0400, Denis wrote:

> I have an Intel D975XBX2 motherboard with an Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
> processor.  One Seagate SATA drive.  An IDE CD-RW.  Pretty much all
> the controllers on the board are Intel.

> One concern I have - when I configure the kernel, I fail to see where
> libata option is for the SATA driver...  I scoured the whole
> menuconfig a few times but for some reason get the feeling like there
> are some options missing or something. 

You probably need the AHCI driver with this board, if not the PIIX one.
The output of lspci will help decide. You'll also need a driver for the
PATA chipset for your CD drive to work.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Artificial Intelligence usually beats real stupidity.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-25  7:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-24 23:14 [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic Denis
2007-05-24 23:19 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-05-24 23:52   ` Denis
2007-05-25  0:30     ` david
2007-05-25  0:44       ` Denis
2007-05-25  1:54         ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-05-25  2:27           ` Denis
2007-05-25  3:16             ` Denis
2007-05-25  4:03               ` Dale
2007-05-25  4:53                 ` Denis
2007-05-25  5:09                   ` Dale
2007-05-25  1:59         ` Mark Knecht
2007-05-25  7:51         ` Neil Bothwick [this message]

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