On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 2:59 PM, <frares@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, guys
>
> It is a shame, I know, but after several years using Gentoo, it is the
> first time I try to build a kernel without "genkernel".
>
> And now I can't boot to that new kernel, it does not find (and really do
> not have a) /dev/sda* root partition ("real-root"); during the boot it
> stops, complaining about that, gives me the option to get a shell, from
> which I am able to see that there is no /dev/sda* .
>
> I have included everything SATA, so it looks like that is not a kernel
> problem, but a initramfs issue, I guess.
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Thanks a lot
> Francisco
>
> P.S.: my boot partition is sda2, sda3 is a swap partition, and everything
> else is in sda4. sda1 is not used (up to now) and this is my grub.conf :
>
> title Gentoo Linux 2.6.39-gentoo-r3
> root (hd0,1)
> kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.39-gentoo-r3 ro root=/dev/ram0
> init=/linuxrc real_root=/dev/sda4 vga=0x318 video=uvesafb:1024x768-32
> nodevfs udev devfs=nomount quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1
> initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.39-gentoo-r3



Do you have a block device driver built into the kernel? And what type of
shell are you dropped into when then happens? Is it a single-user mode shell
or grub (or something else entirely)? Also, while you're booted into the
livecd/dvd/usb and you chroot, try lspci -k and check to see what
modules/drivers that lists as installed and see if you have them enabled in
your config.

- Matt