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 1OTFsW-0008Qc-7x for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:04:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7C9FBE0BC7; Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:03:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-px0-f181.google.com (mail-px0-f181.google.com [209.85.212.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49E98E0BC7 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:03:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pxi5 with SMTP id 5so106120pxi.40 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:03:05 -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=fA/nl3d/kCsY8cqWQ4D1RV2f1LjEyGLyaAgyJZuIl6M=; b=letqGj4LEA/60kpA+bjz7a3ankerGryK0PCYG4AiKF9RI8FH6OjLQdBIyd9nm3+O/U xP7C+ehuBGu9gi3WAeeJiwA3SdzCdUip3U/hC3FmBq45gKUrVRq4eBU52b9vdtqfr9Bo E7u1V1aCHQZ3wmgI8Ho37op3lHcpy/WOxXRmw= 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=suZu3q8RefIqi57NeYC/+ccuN6pQSp+Ec5zWVbgJeI7amzQedE6YntFD1zW51/zHEJ ZnPEPQi3vmQx1zFte5n3gjt7kw2mPyPBR/8k9Vz2b38pqtaTelr9yR3lsjF0UodXnsza zbGnW5YeJdVk7ZLALVTq/5IacdoOAk2yw+Hjg= Received: by 10.115.87.32 with SMTP id p32mr5564881wal.86.1277737381753; Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:03:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.12] ([209.20.133.224]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d39sm47443115wam.4.2010.06.28.08.03.00 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:03:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C28B99D.1040304@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:02:53 -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> <4C20EA5F.2000001@gmail.com> <4C22209F.7040707@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: 0d94ceb1-e755-4410-9bdf-2fe692d0656c X-Archives-Hash: b2fbb67ab9a72fa13c505cdfe3046a14 On 06/25/2010 12:17 PM, rocwhite168 wrote: > "Root-NFS: No NFS server available, giving up. > VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy. > VFS: Cannot open root device "sda5" or unknown-block(2,0) > Please append ac correct "root=" boot option; here are the > available partitions: > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on > unknown-block(2,0) > Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.31-gentoo-r10 #2" > > I searched the Internet for a while, but still can't find any solutions. > The root partition is definitely sda5, as also specified in the fstab file. One of the things you might consider doing is jumping into the busybox shell and poking around /dev for the names of the devices you have. (I'm assuming you boot with grub - that's what those messages look like to me.) You might be able to "insmod" all your modules from there, too, and see if you get the devices installed. Roc, in one of your posts, you listed your grub.conf line and, according to the gmane entry, anyway, it looks like it's split across two lines. Could it be that simple? Is your grub.conf entry for the kernel command on just one line? (Genkernel added the entry so I'm obviously grabbing at straws here....)