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 1QuM1e-0007zL-LC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:10:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AFE6321C027; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:09:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1015921C041 for ; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:08:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyg36 with SMTP id 36so2667671wyg.40 for ; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 03:08:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=TCxRZt3dj70C446VqBEqLtcD50ucnjiPyT1v/0QJnSQ=; b=dJNcVH18r4HIIzHoOGmlJH4yZfJCp/O/IkIL9oCHQXSX7fRZSvRLV5sfIczQ2GfIHu DFDTSejbYluVR73GsjcH0Xnz7ayxmrOFFgWTaEB6ajjongUZeICrwlX5YgSQM7nzvW8m OGGNQSeoOkd0ljrbn19gHDHWlaVmKqLMZd/HI= Received: by 10.227.11.6 with SMTP id r6mr1496002wbr.99.1313748531251; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 03:08:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ej15sm2446647wbb.65.2011.08.19.03.08.49 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 19 Aug 2011 03:08:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:09:23 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.39-gentoo-r3; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <20cf305e2551cc15c604aacc34f7@google.com> In-Reply-To: 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: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3635737.mkWB1rGG2n"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201108191109.34984.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: e93088dfdfffe4c557abf20c69fc3fba --nextPart3635737.mkWB1rGG2n Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Friday 19 Aug 2011 03:27:23 Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:59 AM, wrote: > > Hi, guys > >=20 > > It is a shame, I know, but after several years using Gentoo, it is the > > first time I try to build a kernel without "genkernel". > >=20 > > And now I can't boot to that new kernel, it does not find (and really do > > not have a) /dev/sda* root partition ("real-root"); during the boot it > > stops, complaining about that, gives me the option to get a shell, from > > which I am able to see that there is no /dev/sda* . > >=20 > > I have included everything SATA, so it looks like that is not a kernel > > problem, but a initramfs issue, I guess. > >=20 > > What am I missing? > >=20 > > Thanks a lot > > Francisco > >=20 > > P.S.: my boot partition is sda2, sda3 is a swap partition, and everythi= ng > > else is in sda4. sda1 is not used (up to now) and this is my grub.conf : > >=20 > > title Gentoo Linux 2.6.39-gentoo-r3 > > root (hd0,1) > > kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.39-gentoo-r3 ro root=3D/dev/ra= m0 > > init=3D/linuxrc real_root=3D/dev/sda4 vga=3D0x318 video=3Duvesafb:1024x= 768-32 > > nodevfs udev devfs=3Dnomount quiet CONSOLE=3D/dev/tty1 > > initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.39-gentoo-r3 >=20 > Maybe I'm missing the obvious here but have you taken a copy of > whatever config file was used/generated by genkernel and used that as > a jumping off point for building your own kernel. kernel's a kernel's > a kernel. What it is capable of doing is in the .config file. If > genkernel doesn't give you a .config file - I've never used genkernel > so I don't know what it does - then assuming you have the feature > turned on you can get the running config using zcat /proc/config.gz. > Save that to a new .config file, put it in the kernel source directory > and you should be good to go. >=20 > You can also use zcat /proc/config.gz on the install CD kernel if yuo > boot from that. Save it to a disk and use it as the basis for creating > your own config. If you no longer use genkernel it is likely that you do not need an initram= =2E =20 Build chipset and fs modules into the kernel. Other drivers you can choose= if=20 you want to build as modules.=20 =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart3635737.mkWB1rGG2n Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk5ONl4ACgkQVTDTR3kpaLajuQCePuaMkFUz46oofkmadg/rUGOn Ve0AoNJ+fzNlz2DM+s6+9R84qm1jXo+4 =i988 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3635737.mkWB1rGG2n--