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 1OA3Yu-0007Ix-Mo for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 06 May 2010 16:04:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 04B6DE086B; Thu, 6 May 2010 16:03:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mta-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (mta-2.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.7.73]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1149E085D for ; Thu, 6 May 2010 16:03:58 +0000 (UTC) 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-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: INLINE Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=us-ascii Received: from ironport-out-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.5.40]) by mta-2.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008)) with ESMTP id <0L2000HNF9YMRE50@mta-2.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 06 May 2010 18:03:58 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.52,341,1270418400"; d="scan'208";a="56551982" Received: from relay-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (HELO relay.rwth-aachen.de) ([134.130.7.75]) by ironport-in-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de with ESMTP; Thu, 06 May 2010 18:03:58 +0200 Received: from numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (numa-i.igpm.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.161.252]) by relay.rwth-aachen.de (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/1) with ESMTP id o46G3vZE024173 for ; Thu, 06 May 2010 18:03:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: by numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix, from userid 230) id 10755BEE; Thu, 06 May 2010 18:03:58 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 18:03:57 +0200 (CEST) From: Helmut Jarausch Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-reply-to: Message-id: References: <264561CB-EDC4-46DA-8048-3333FDE076E9@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> X-Archives-Salt: 8f2fcfe6-c9ba-45e5-8d99-7b42af444e4b X-Archives-Hash: 389c00c1e603be82b5a7fae2fe18a9ec On 6 May, Roger Mason wrote: > Stroller writes: > >> On 6 May 2010, at 09:37, Roger Mason wrote: >>> ... >>> I just built a new machine (celeron 3 GHz) using a script that builds >>> the kernel using genkernel and a config that is copied from that of >>> the >>> kernel on the install cd. >> >> Are you sure ext[234] is compiled statically into the kernel in this >> .config? > > Yes. > >> Also the drivers for the EIDE / SATA controller. >> >> The liveCD configs I've seen generally store these as modules. I, too, >> usually take a copy of the config from a working LiveCD when I compile >> a kernel, but I *always* have to change something. > > This what grep SATA kernel-config says: > > # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_SATA is not set > CONFIG_SATA_PMP=y > CONFIG_SATA_AHCI=m > CONFIG_SATA_SIL24=m > CONFIG_SATA_SVW=m > CONFIG_SATA_MV=m > CONFIG_SATA_NV=m > CONFIG_SATA_QSTOR=m > CONFIG_SATA_PROMISE=m > CONFIG_SATA_SX4=m > CONFIG_SATA_SIL=m > CONFIG_SATA_SIS=m > CONFIG_SATA_ULI=m > CONFIG_SATA_VIA=m > CONFIG_SATA_VITESSE=m > CONFIG_SATA_INIC162X=m > > lspci says: > 00:12.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA > > So, what must I set? > > Thanks for the help. > Check the BIOS if it supports AHCI SATA. Select it if possible. Then set CONFIG_SATA_AHCI=y (not m, since the kernel must be able to access the disk to load any module). Helmut.