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 1QuUvW-00025O-PE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 19:40:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 792BF21C189; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 19:40:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E593E21C189 for ; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 19:39:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwf25 with SMTP id 25so3241456wwf.10 for ; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:39:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.227.151.196 with SMTP id d4mr50723wbw.102.1313782745946; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:39:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aemaeth.localnet (93-34-52-235.ip48.fastwebnet.it [93.34.52.235]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fm9sm2822222wbb.10.2011.08.19.12.39.03 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:39:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Francesco Talamona Organization: i.Know To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: /dev/sda* missing at boot Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 21:38:59 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.0.0-gentoo; 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: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Message-Id: <201108192138.59315.francesco.talamona@know.eu> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 53e0826d93dbe89c2e070dc7f2bf3323 On Friday 19 August 2011, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/18/2011 10:08 PM, Andr=C3=A1s Cs=C3=A1nyi wrote: > > On 18 August 2011 18:59, 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 > > Why have you choose this way? I mean, non-genkernel way. >=20 > genkernel generates generic (bloated) kernels. This is a generalization, not entirely true: genkernel --no-clean --no-mrproper --kerneldir=3Dblabla all With the above command, for example, you can provide your own .config=20 and genkernel will do exactly as you wish. Cheers Francesco --=20 Linux Version 3.0.0-gentoo, Compiled #3 SMP PREEMPT Fri Aug 5 21:02:22=20 CEST 2011 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4021.84 Bogomips Total aemaeth