[gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

[gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

[Nick Khamis]

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I have a kernel recompiled here, and I would like to copy over the bz to
boot. I have a /boot that I can access but I do not think this is it (there
is nothing in there). When I 'mount /boot' I get unkown filesystem type
'ext2'. I have followed Gentoo Handbook direction for the installation of
the environemnt. Please Help.

Thank In Advanced,
Ninus

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Re: [gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Donnerstag 03 September 2009, Nick Khamis wrote:
> I have a kernel recompiled here, and I would like to copy over the bz to
> boot. I have a /boot that I can access but I do not think this is it (there
> is nothing in there). When I 'mount /boot' I get unkown filesystem type
> 'ext2'. I have followed Gentoo Handbook direction for the installation of
> the environemnt. Please Help.
> 
> Thank In Advanced,
> Ninus
> 

you forgot to include ext2 support into your kernel. Choosing it as module is 
not enought.

Re: [gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

[Nick Khamis]

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Hell Sir,

Thank You for your response, I did add it after I sent the original message,
chrooted, mounted, and copied over trhe new bzimage file to the /boot
partition. Now I am getting special device dev/sda1 does not exist when
trying to issue a "mount /boot"

Thanks In Advnaced,
Ninus

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Re: [gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

[Alan McKinnon]

On Thursday 03 September 2009 15:01:58 Nick Khamis wrote:
> Hell Sir,
> 
> Thank You for your response, I did add it after I sent the original
>  message, chrooted, mounted, and copied over trhe new bzimage file to the
>  /boot partition. Now I am getting special device dev/sda1 does not exist
>  when trying to issue a "mount /boot"

You probably left out support for your chipset in the kernel. This too must 
not be a module.

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

[Nick Khamis]

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I am using a Dell D820 ICH7 family, I am chking to see if appropriate
modules have been selectd in the kernel right now.

Reagrds,
Ninus.

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Re: [gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

[Xavier Parizet]

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Nick Khamis a écrit :
> I am using a Dell D820 ICH7 family, I am chking to see if appropriate
> modules have been selectd in the kernel right now.

You can, it can be useful, but this will not help with your xorg problem.
If you can type in startx or /etc/init.d/xdm start, so your keyboard is working.
So try to re-emerge xf86-input-keyboard and xf86-input-mouse, it will probably
solves your problem.

Regards.

> Reagrds,
> Ninus.

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Re: [gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

[Nick Khamis]

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Exactly!
In console everything is find. but when I issue startx my keybaord and mouse
are non functional. I did remerge xf86 mouse and keyboard and still nothing.
I looking into xorg.conf.

Regards,
Ninus

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Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg hal/evdev (was: unknown filesystem type 'ext2')

[Jesús Guerrero]

On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 09:29:48 -0400, Nick Khamis <symack@gmail.com> wrote:
> Exactly!
> In console everything is find. but when I issue startx my keybaord and
> mouse
> are non functional. I did remerge xf86 mouse and keyboard and still
> nothing.
> I looking into xorg.conf.
> 
> Regards,
> Ninus

New versions of xorg.conf use hal to configure input devices. 

If you want to continue using the old method (xorg.conf) for 
input devices, you need to add this line to your xorg.conf:

Option "AllowEmptyInput" "False"

The X will continue to use your old xorg.conf settings for 
input devices. 

Else,

If you want to migrate to the new policy using hal, you need
to do this instead:

cp /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-x11-input.fdi
/etc/hal/fdi/policy/

You might need to customize that file to suit your localization
settings or whatever.

-- 
Jesús Guerrero

Re: [gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

[Paul Hartman]

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Nick Khamis<symack@gmail.com> wrote:
> Exactly!
> In console everything is find. but when I issue startx my keybaord and mouse
> are non functional. I did remerge xf86 mouse and keyboard and still nothing.
> I looking into xorg.conf.

Newer Xorg uses a different method of configuring hardware. There are
many threads and many possible ways of addressing the problem:

1) emerge "xf86-input-evdev" and set up input devices using the new
configuration method (out of xorg.conf, into FDI files) -- this also
requires a certain kernel option to be enabled.
2) Add this option to ServerLayout section of xorg.conf: Option
"AllowEmptyInput" "false"
3) rebuild xorg-server with hal USE flag disabled

Any one of those 3 should fix the problem. The first one is the "new"
way, the others will leave you using legacy configuration methods. Use
whatever works best for you. :)

There are other possible things you may need to do depending on your
particular setup. Fancy mice or non-English keyboards especially will
need additional effort to configure the same as before.  Read the
Gentoo Xorg upgrade guide for more info:

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.5-upgrade-guide.xml

Re: [gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

[Nick Khamis]

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Hello Everyone,

Thank you all for your help, im an idiot everything works perfect. The only
problem I am having is that when xdm is loading "I am using nvidia-drivers",
xdm loads and nothing works no keyboard etc... I am almost there xorg.conf
looks ok, modprobe nvidia with no issues. I cannot every ctral+alt+F1/F2/F3
over to another screen after xdm loads. All the kernel driver that I need
are included "I think"

Regards,
Ninus

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Re: [gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

[Xavier Parizet]

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Nick Khamis a écrit :
> Hello Everyone,
>  
> Thank you all for your help, im an idiot everything works perfect. The
> only problem I am having is that when xdm is loading "I am using
> nvidia-drivers", xdm loads and nothing works no keyboard etc... I am
> almost there xorg.conf looks ok, modprobe nvidia with no issues. I
> cannot every ctral+alt+F1/F2/F3 over to another screen after xdm loads.
> All the kernel driver that I need are included "I think"

If this is a fresh install, so i guess you have updated xorg-server.
Maybe try to re-emerge xf86-input-keyboard and xf86-input-mouse ?

HTH.

> Regards,
> Ninus

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Re: [gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

[Dale]

Nick Khamis wrote:
> I have a kernel recompiled here, and I would like to copy over the bz
> to boot. I have a /boot that I can access but I do not think this is
> it (there is nothing in there). When I 'mount /boot' I get unkown
> filesystem type 'ext2'. I have followed Gentoo Handbook direction for
> the installation of the environemnt. Please Help.
>  
> Thank In Advanced,
> Ninus

Did you forget to compile ext2 in the kernel or as a module?  Maybe
missed loading the module if it is a module?

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

[Xavier Parizet]

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Nick Khamis a écrit :
> I have a kernel recompiled here, and I would like to copy over the bz to
> boot. I have a /boot that I can access but I do not think this is it
> (there is nothing in there). When I 'mount /boot' I get unkown
> filesystem type 'ext2'. I have followed Gentoo Handbook direction for
> the installation of the environemnt. Please Help.

Hmmmm... According to what you said, it seems that when you compiled your
current running kernel during the Gentoo install, either you forgot to compile
ext2 filesystem support in the kernel, either you compile it as module, in this
case doing a modprobe ext2 can help, or in the last choice, you didn't compile
ext2 support at all.

Try to see if you are in the first cases. If not, you will have to compile your
newly kernel with ext2 support, and use grub command line from the boot menu to
tell him to use your new kernel instead of the one located in /boot.

HTH.

> Thank In Advanced,
> Ninus

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