From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HrR8a-0001fZ-K8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 25 May 2007 04:10:49 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4P49UPo008172; Fri, 25 May 2007 04:09:30 GMT Received: from mirus.exceedtech.net (ns0.exceedtech.net [70.151.169.5]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4P452sp003281 for ; Fri, 25 May 2007 04:05:03 GMT Received: from [4.231.59.250] (dialup-4.231.59.250.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.231.59.250]) by mirus.exceedtech.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id l4P43cqj016142 for ; Thu, 24 May 2007 23:04:43 -0500 Message-ID: <46566004.4000602@exceedtech.net> Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 23:03:16 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070504 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic References: <46562E3E.7040307@bellsouth.net> <200705250354.02453.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 85f3e975-c01e-49e7-8f47-b11561fe28ff X-Archives-Hash: 72a06c35fb8246dd483a285c182ced39 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 :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967 Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list