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 1SOZho-0001Un-Jp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:22:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DB692E0760; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:22:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9EDBE0655 for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:21:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CB0B1B4067 for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:21:24 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.16 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.16 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-1.150, BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no 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 Jy_SxIwQiejb for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:21:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E138E1B4001 for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:21:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SOZgG-0000sw-Ha for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 21:21:12 +0200 Received: from adsl-69-234-202-43.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.202.43]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 21:21:12 +0200 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-202-43.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 21:21:12 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Please help, kernel can not load root Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 12:21:07 -0700 Message-ID: References: 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=UTF-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-202-43.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120420 Thunderbird/12.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 0c826302-d24a-404b-ab18-3ca7ddeddf4e X-Archives-Hash: 40c4c73d3ac077c894b6ea861d1a94a5 On 04/29/2012 11:35 AM, Ignas Anikevi=C4=8Dius wrote: > Hello, >=20 > it's been several since I have tried to make my machine boot again > without any live CDs and I could not narrow the main issue down. The > problem is that the kernel can not mount the root partition. The error message is unknown block(2,0), which may mean that your kernel lacks a driver for your disk controller. IIRC the kernel config menu for block devices has changed. Maybe you need to set CONFIG_ATA or some other obscure item in your kernel config to make the correct driver visible?