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 1OR38u-0005zM-Go for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:03:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2C3E2E09E9 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:03:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70EB5E08DF for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:52:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C4061B40BC for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:52:49 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.924 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.924 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.325, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Vnt2g0E1Gs4h for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:52:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46FA21B402B for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:52:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OR2xv-0007wG-Ha for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:52:35 +0200 Received: from adsl-69-234-195-30.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.195.30]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:52:35 +0200 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-195-30.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:52:35 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel configuration problem -- genkernel: no irq handler; manual config: root filesystem could not be mounted r/w Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 05:52:24 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20100622022712.GA4640@waltdnes.org> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-195-30.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.3a6pre) Gecko/20100621 Thunderbird/3.2a1pre In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: 3bf826e5-5f5e-4be0-8f2c-3014e4379858 X-Archives-Hash: 4180748f1410923826de2fb5d4957eea On 06/21/2010 09:46 PM, rocwhite168 wrote: > Walter Dnes waltdnes.org> writes: > >> >> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 02:57:58PM +0800, rocwhite168 wrote >> >>> On the other hand, I'm trying to configure the kernel manually. I >>> did this according to several online tutorials, but it still won't >>> even start up: "Root filesystem could not be mounted read/write." Can >>> anyone please have a look at my configuration? Thank you very much! >> >> One more helpful piece of info; boot from the install CD (or a Knoppix >> Live CD for that matter) and mount a USB stick and run... >> >> lsmod> info.txt >> >> ...and post the contents of info.txt. That will give us an idea of what >> modules are used when the system successfully boots. Also, do you have >> AHCI support enabled? >> > > lsmod from my manually configured kernel > -------------------------------------- > Module Size Used by > raid456 45132 0 > async_memcpy 1748 1 raid456 > async_xor 2844 1 raid456 > xor 13952 2 raid456,async_xor > async_tx 2936 3 raid456,async_memcpy,async_xor > raid6_pq 80412 1 raid456 I recall reading threads about problems caused by putting the root partition on a raid volume, but I've never understood what the problems are. Is that your situation? Maybe someone else can remind us about it.