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From: Dale <dalek@exceedtech.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 23:03:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46566004.4000602@exceedtech.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d9a0a6da0705242016x3aea3b38k7c89fe98a38d7079@mail.gmail.com>

Denis wrote:
> SOLVED.
>
> I was able to configure and compile the kernel and configure a working
> Gentoo system that gives me no errors at boot :-)
>
> I am not sure what went wrong the first time.  I selected the same
> basic driver support within the kernel as the first time, except I
> didn't bother with some of the other bells and whistles I first had in
> there.  Perhaps now that I have a working system, I can play with the
> kernel and see what works, since I can always fall back onto a working
> kernel and still have a running system.
>
> I'm glad this is solved because I was getting really annoyed at myself
> here...
>
> Thanks to everyone who chimed in!
> -Denis

I have ran into things like this before, I usually run make mrproper
from within the kernel directory to make sure there is no old cruft
laying around in there.  After that, on a kernel upgrade of course, I
copy the .config over and run make oldconfig.  Of course, on a new
install, start from scratch.  :/

There are a LOT of people that know more about this than me but this has
worked for me so far.  Someone may have even better ideas to add.

Dale

:-)  :-)  :-)

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-25  4:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-24 23:14 [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic Denis
2007-05-24 23:19 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-05-24 23:52   ` Denis
2007-05-25  0:30     ` david
2007-05-25  0:44       ` Denis
2007-05-25  1:54         ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-05-25  2:27           ` Denis
2007-05-25  3:16             ` Denis
2007-05-25  4:03               ` Dale [this message]
2007-05-25  4:53                 ` Denis
2007-05-25  5:09                   ` Dale
2007-05-25  1:59         ` Mark Knecht
2007-05-25  7:51         ` Neil Bothwick

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