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From: Denis <denis.che@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic
Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 00:53:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d9a0a6da0705242153ra2726f4te2bbf9fbd4402111@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46566004.4000602@exceedtech.net>

> I have ran into things like this before, I usually run make mrproper
> from within the kernel directory to make sure there is no old cruft
> laying around in there.

In my case, it was a fresh install, which made it quite a bit more
painful to fix because I had to go through the procedures twice and
did not have a working kernel to fall back on.  It's the scenario I've
always dreaded, and then one day it actually happens.  When I re-did
the install, I erased the partition table and started anew, so there
was no old cruft to begin with.

I'm not sure if this contributed to anything, but I enabled all the
relevant RAID support the second time around.  Since I only have one
SATA drive, I simply turned off RAID support initially in the kernel,
but it's possible that this particular combination of hardware was
expecting a RAID driver...

I'm so clueless sometimes trying to figure out some of these kernel
options...  haha.  The really technical ones where it's like a foreign
language.  I love the "if unsure, say N here." or "if you don't know
what this is, you probably don't need it - say N here."   ;-)
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-25  4:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-24 23:14 [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic Denis
2007-05-24 23:19 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-05-24 23:52   ` Denis
2007-05-25  0:30     ` david
2007-05-25  0:44       ` Denis
2007-05-25  1:54         ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-05-25  2:27           ` Denis
2007-05-25  3:16             ` Denis
2007-05-25  4:03               ` Dale
2007-05-25  4:53                 ` Denis [this message]
2007-05-25  5:09                   ` Dale
2007-05-25  1:59         ` Mark Knecht
2007-05-25  7:51         ` Neil Bothwick

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