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 1OQtmQ-0004gm-5b for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 03:04:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 054EEE0CEC for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 03:04:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CE03E0801 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:27:16 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AkQGAMq8H0xLd+CU/2dsb2JhbACSZIV0hjFywU6FGwSJdIMu X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.53,457,1272859200"; d="scan'208";a="68548994" Received: from 75-119-224-148.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([75.119.224.148]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with SMTP; 21 Jun 2010 22:27:14 -0400 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:27:12 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:27:12 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kernel configuration problem -- genkernel: no irq handler; manual config: root filesystem could not be mounted r/w Message-ID: <20100622022712.GA4640@waltdnes.org> References: 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-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Archives-Salt: c43f9433-ab5f-47d3-963d-07c200cf4d2c X-Archives-Hash: c8dfe13fe1dc3aeb03d024a4aaf8c17c On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 02:57:58PM +0800, rocwhite168 wrote > On the other hand, I'm trying to configure the kernel manually. I > did this according to several online tutorials, but it still won't > even start up: "Root filesystem could not be mounted read/write." Can > anyone please have a look at my configuration? Thank you very much! One more helpful piece of info; boot from the install CD (or a Knoppix Live CD for that matter) and mount a USB stick and run... lsmod > info.txt ...and post the contents of info.txt. That will give us an idea of what modules are used when the system successfully boots. Also, do you have AHCI support enabled? -- Walter Dnes