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 1OdPN6-0004wy-Ro for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:13:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5D9D6E0B21; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:13:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qw0-f53.google.com (mail-qw0-f53.google.com [209.85.216.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FF2CE0B21 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:13:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qwj8 with SMTP id 8so152235qwj.40 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:13:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=C8/WYyA3GUff6+1uaIbWHuaoh3wPlkQehHIkCruXY6c=; b=I0x3YFx6uRVjUhD3YeniaICb6agPjg4aM+BU3NIHoBITgRmoFoOrbqtyL6udh1kHrY qku5Ps3d4am2lRepgXfSpAqZNX4sSbI3bNYTIRen0u8R6xMQNaBmcMpyKjFUg/RIVTnH Au7AUryw9JzZlezYLywj42XkGN67tbJQGOUG4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=n3N6iiY5A9nqoaDSmnsOzeSgGPqIDxOwYltnvwKyBAhTzaXgqZ8Dp+woXX77F90LI8 ksJyiBMSCfI2G7T+c4jpxYMGTPGDaCntxPJ4e9J7Zrda+navjQektcotNdaun9Zig2dI JjytQulsHtPNlS9VvhImDTQVK4SKgTVu1snrc= 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 Received: by 10.224.114.204 with SMTP id f12mr6478223qaq.150.1280157199668; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:13:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.181.82 with HTTP; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:13:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201007261511.25893.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> References: <4C4B45B2.4000508@konstantinhansen.de> <1280141659.8738.15.camel@rattus> <201007261511.25893.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:13:19 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 771a2592-5c7d-4789-8197-20e39f48bdbf X-Archives-Hash: 81d7cc7e70fe8c8c9a529a3389dcd64f On 26 July 2010 15:11, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 26 July 2010 12:02:56 Mick wrote: > >> Another gotcha is when you disable the deprecated CONFIG_IDE in the >> kernel and you don't update your grub.conf and /etc/fstab to rename >> /dev/hda's into /dev/sda's. > > Drifting off topic somewhat, when I upgraded udev on my firewall box last > week I was told I shouldn't have CONFIG_IDE set, so I recompiled the > kernel without it and lo! a kernel panic during boot. And yes, I had > changed hdas to sdas. > > So udev is wrong in saying CONFIG_IDE should not be set - on that old P4 > box it has to be to get ICH4 drivers. Hmm, did you try ATA_PIIX, or PATA_MPIIX, or PATA_SCH? Also, make sure you enable BLK_DEV_SR, for some reason I could get a box to boot without it. The box in question is an ancient PIII Coppermine! -- Regards, Mick