From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-69405-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@gentoo.org>) id 1IVaOD-0003bH-Sf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:08:54 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l8CLwWfE008054; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:58:32 GMT Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net (sccrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.200.83]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l8CLoj9l029874 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:50:46 GMT Received: from spore.ath.cx ([24.245.14.14]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc13) with ESMTP id <2007091221504301300h8g5oe>; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:50:43 +0000 Received: from pascal.spore.ath.cx (pascal.spore.ath.cx [192.168.1.100]) by spore.ath.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id E21682A93B for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:50:42 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:50:42 -0500 From: Dan Farrell <dan@spore.ath.cx> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Boot situation Message-ID: <20070912165042.49531c73@pascal.spore.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <2db4be990709121354v3b07c774g9297804f78297bc1@mail.gmail.com> References: <46E40A8F.6000809@gmail.com> <200709120001.32331.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> <46E7DEB8.605@gmail.com> <200709122117.09470.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> <2db4be990709121354v3b07c774g9297804f78297bc1@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Spore, Ltd. X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.13; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 13fd5650-347e-4325-8c62-f7e87e426c7a X-Archives-Hash: 85359f8bc77eed708951d2c06e2f33dc On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:54:01 -0400 "Colleen Beamer" <colleen.beamer@gmail.com> wrote: > I used fdisk - deleted all the partitions, created the new partition > table and created file systems on them. I can read data from the > drive - any text file that I can "cat" displays fine. I just can't > get the drive recognized when I boot to the system. this means one of three things 1- no driver for your IDE interface which could also be a module that you need from initrd but isn't there; additionally, perhaps a hardware management process that the cd uses isn't available and the driver is never loaded 2- no support for the Filesystem in question in your kernel 3- incorrect specification of root filesystem or partition in fstab or grub.conf. This includes specifying an incorrect device (sda1 from new PATA experimental drivers, when it's hda1 on your system, for example) I don't think there's anything else that could cause the problem. Can we see fstab and grub.conf to make sure please? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list