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 1ORERL-0004Q3-Of for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 01:07:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6567AE0B84 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 01:07:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C318FE0852 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:45:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7310C1B400B for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:45:17 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.599 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.599 required=5.5 tests=[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 I+zJrpSZ68ZR for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:45:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F5991B4017 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:45:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ORE5P-0005HF-Qt for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 02:45:03 +0200 Received: from c-75-73-20-64.hsd1.mn.comcast.net ([75.73.20.64]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 02:45:03 +0200 Received: from rocwhite168 by c-75-73-20-64.hsd1.mn.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 02:45:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: rocwhite168 Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel configuration problem -- genkernel: no irq handler; manual config: root filesystem could not be mounted r/w Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:40:14 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <4C204707.6060201@gmail.com> <4C204E6F.701@gmail.com> <4C20758C.50408@gmail.com> 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=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 75.73.20.64 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/6.0.437.3 Safari/534.1) X-Archives-Salt: 550afec3-478c-4b96-a1bb-730db7db35ff X-Archives-Hash: a73ecb722f913b123ef2ae9c724a3191 Dale gmail.com> writes: > > I did some googling. Seriously grasping at straws here. Do you have > SMP enabled? If so, do you really have a multiprocessor or multicore > machine? I ask beause I did find where someone else had SMP enabled and > it shouldn't have been. I noticed it shows it is enabled in the config > you posted earlier. Also, make sure you have the correct CPU selected > too. I think you do tho from what I saw in the config. Also make sure > you have the correct partitions in fstab too. I know I'm bad to mix > those up sometimes or just leave out a "/" mark. > > Another thought, are you sure that the drive partitions are sda and not > hda? I still use the old drivers and mine are hda but some are using > the new drivers which are sda. Just wanting to make certain. Grasping > at one more straw. > > I'll do some more thinking and put a little more wear and tear on google. > > Dale > Thanks again for your suggestion! I tried to switch off SMP and recompiled the kernel, but the problem persists. I'm sure I'm using the newer driver so I think the partitions should be called sda. On the other hand, if I can ever succeed in eliminating the irq problem with genkernel, I would be very happy too! It's really frustrating sometimes... Roc