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 1PEOlE-0001bn-DH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 05 Nov 2010 16:03:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5CB3EE0CB2 for ; Fri, 5 Nov 2010 16:03:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f53.google.com (mail-fx0-f53.google.com [209.85.161.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D966E0B2E for ; Fri, 5 Nov 2010 15:52:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm6 with SMTP id 6so2782536fxm.40 for ; Fri, 05 Nov 2010 08:52:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=P47jnH4Bs1JFx59J7+vOyTpEQ2OCaPOg28w3gxIbmoE=; b=QGHWNryvMvk/qdh544gVKasbsQ6N6kplXBOoqKWUallIFv6jDDLzmdq7gZ7Huq5MnS T5yk02tuoLD/SJjbgX5P8RnZwdFi1O7JpO6CO0zBlbWpC1BPZ0SoG5qdQmghqMUAWPyV 5tTfD7KrqlkASlcrfNIuUEkmxcdGPyUVuG+oo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=rPgX8bbaEpAr1jz/LLvG+LuG1YRHLCMNJOiAwaXZmkTKh+BX0Dz5/S6YqXhJtOt/T0 JRDyNvoFT6tdU8LWkOU8JKd14agLHwqii6OhswYBpW3cGU/QI886iUlZgcMHhSDop/Z1 etpK0/AgY26K0IhbeRe9bCJUU2wbxwGskKH28= Received: by 10.223.116.1 with SMTP id k1mr1123520faq.51.1288972365950; Fri, 05 Nov 2010 08:52:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from energy.localnet (p5DCC0B97.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [93.204.11.151]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p18sm684625faa.40.2010.11.05.08.52.43 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 05 Nov 2010 08:52:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panic on manually built kernel Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 16:52:44 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.34.7r4; KDE/4.5.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <4CD2E093.5030008@optonline.net> In-Reply-To: <4CD2E093.5030008@optonline.net> 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="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201011051652.44199.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 60b79778-96c4-4d05-8faa-68725b229e86 X-Archives-Hash: 902c6ec45e19ca9f3406bee22957d6af On Thursday 04 November 2010, dhk wrote: > I've always used the genkernel, but now am trying to make a manual one. > I think the kernel is alright since all the default setting seemed > reasonable and the build was easy enough. However, when I boot to it I > get a kernel panic and it complains about the root device /dev/hda3. So > I think the problem has to do with my parameters or syntax in grub.conf. > Below are three grub menu options. The first two have the problem and > the third is the genkernel that works fine. Is there something wrong > with the way the first two are? Thanks. > > # This is a Manually built kernel with default settings. kernel panic > title Gentoo Linux x86 2.6.34-r12 > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.34-gentoo-r12 root=/dev/hda3 > > # This is a Manually built kernel with default settings. kernel panic > title Gentoo Linux x86 2.6.34-r12 > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.34-gentoo-r12 root=/dev/hda3 vga=791 > splash=verbose video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap udev > # From Documentation: video=uvesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap,1024x768-32@85 > > # This a genkernel and works > title Gentoo Linux x86 2.6.34-r6 > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.34-gentoo-r6 init=/linuxrc > ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda3 vga=791 splash=verbose > video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap udev > initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.34-gentoo-r6 > > --dhk grub must point to sda3 not hda3