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 1HrPCT-0004PV-8E for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 25 May 2007 02:06:41 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4P25PO2024091; Fri, 25 May 2007 02:05:25 GMT Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.225]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4P1x4D6014030 for ; Fri, 25 May 2007 01:59:04 GMT Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 76so244720wra for ; Thu, 24 May 2007 18:59:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ezI7tqT96yV0i9+brfz/DdjdMQ8UQS3w5jaiwp5FaMirto+SPF6YtYqb0CZnolyplhBx/u3tOdKivhrzIx2DjeRWVIYW+k0NAKuiqyF9wzqOIc/e3ByPPH3WKthMjLzSr2VZ/DkJsDoGmVoRhIrNdI2F/t4GI+8/VaOcidu3IdI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=RKc+WGxYwluaLGeYzqv//BmnsWNMkcR7lCFHhNeWaRbnOmVfdTHyn6kgbNO3SXpQZYjv4LC7Iy9p2Si89mFuUOv5TDKeqHcZM0Ywx2i4XVbiqniWHoHy+OmHpJ4pMMrTIe+7NyMStKTEqC7t98w60KTbu2+5jJNM9kcqAT6YHnE= Received: by 10.114.205.1 with SMTP id c1mr1239146wag.1180058342955; Thu, 24 May 2007 18:59:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.115.17.14 with HTTP; Thu, 24 May 2007 18:59:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0705241859y799a264bvebe66c3cc369832d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 18:59:02 -0700 From: "Mark Knecht" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic In-Reply-To: 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200705250119.42867.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <46562E3E.7040307@bellsouth.net> X-Archives-Salt: 289fb267-e54d-47fd-b958-59b5f9c87846 X-Archives-Hash: 4ab1438926d97910f2517fe9632d029c On 5/24/07, Denis wrote: > I have an Intel D975XBX2 motherboard with an Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 > processor. One Seagate SATA drive. An IDE CD-RW. Pretty much all > the controllers on the board are Intel. > > I did re-set the clock, after which the make stopped complaining. > > One concern I have - when I configure the kernel, I fail to see where > libata option is for the SATA driver... I scoured the whole > menuconfig a few times but for some reason get the feeling like there > are some options missing or something. I just recently set up a > Gentoo box on another machine, and kernel config gave me no problems > whatsoever, unlike now. That time I did it, I remember seeing the > libata option in the kernel, and now I don't see it... I think it's > the same kernel version 2.6.20-r8 that I installed on my other box. > Maybe I'm just going nuts (which I am). > -- In newer kernels the SATA options have been moved. Enter make menuconfig and type / SATA It will show you the SATA options and tell you how they are configured. It will also give hints as to where to find these options. Good luck, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list