Re: [gentoo-user] Can't access disks after install

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

On 02/07/06, Rumen Yotov <rumen@qrypto.org> wrote:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Brand new install, and the kernel can't access the SATA disks. I don't
> > have the bandwidth to d/l an entire install CD and I have an up to date
> > distfiles locally so I used the latest install CD I have - 2005.1
> >
> > Hardware: Dell Latitude D810 with 80G sata.
> > / on /dev/sda7 (reiser)
> > /boot on /dev/sda1 (ext2)
> > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86, latest udev installed.
> > /home, /usr, /opt, /var and distfiles on an lvm (all reiser)
> > Install disk boots fine with full access to the disk.
> >
> > On boot the initramfs detects the hardware, but complains it can't find
> > my / on /dev/sda7. Drop to a shell and the nodes are right there
> > in /dev. The reiser module is not loaded, but it was configured as a
> > module by genkernel.

If your / fs is reiserfs then recompile your kernel with reiserfs in
the kernel (not as a module) and see if it now finds your /.
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Regards,
Mick
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