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 1OR6xD-0004QA-Gl for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:08:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9DF40E0909 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:08:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pw0-f53.google.com (mail-pw0-f53.google.com [209.85.160.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83514E07C2 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:52:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pwi3 with SMTP id 3so1207090pwi.40 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:52:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=zmM3gbt1+hMew6niWd5Vq2VImOlvjEnVYQuEw4AzTVo=; b=Yv4aJkB3BRTT8tyyb7WcZUrywvuDJ1fgIGbflt6nbf4BOGuKT1XBTlKo9Jw36AeIJS VWlwElMqhCbzK0aMaRfLikMEt6S4dpdtAGO8rz2NFzIqcvHiUHB6aN7bcRsT1v3c0GqR 5R56IYpHEKiLG6ODIa9dQU/Zq6jai3E6VEBlc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=IwKp5M2twD97doHZjD1mBumEURLylGuxmlToeYeGIvvyPLrZd2+dtbHymGMI6ZDZ+U /B3p36CNw8DQp/ozvuU8zHGudXo5KEOobe8rsNNgPTIcKx7Jx5D3Hej4vd9e3cDBsX5K sE/cBugYNmILG8t+GVhkTgYpzN457/XQ2JLN8= Received: by 10.115.149.4 with SMTP id b4mr5903613wao.143.1277225571119; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:52:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.12] ([209.20.133.224]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b6sm30981659wam.9.2010.06.22.09.52.49 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:52:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C20EA5F.2000001@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:52:47 -0700 From: Bill Longman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100608 Thunderbird/3.0.4 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel configuration problem -- genkernel: no irq handler; manual config: root filesystem could not be mounted r/w References: <4C204707.6060201@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 8fb814ed-950d-4121-b166-6968d859e543 X-Archives-Hash: df9ac33f0fcf458c8c555872689165c5 On 06/21/2010 10:20 PM, rocwhite168 wrote: > Dale gmail.com> writes: > >> >> I notice you are using ext4 for the root partition file system. Do you >> have support for ext4 compiled in the kernel? Not as a module but built >> into the kernel? Using modules is OK but things that it has to have to >> get to the point where it can read the root partition and start loading >> modules has to be built in, unless you want to go to the additional >> effort to use a initrd. >> >> Dale >> > > Yes, it's built-in. I have attached a copy of my kernel config file in the > original post. I'll bet you don't have HUGETLBFS turned on in your kernel. It's required for ext4.