On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Matthias Fechner <ide...@fechner.net>wrote:
> Dear list, > > I switched now to a new mainboard and it seems that the drive numbering > changed or my kernel does not detect any hard disks... > If I try to boot my gentoo the kernel panic because it cannot find the > root partition. > > After the panic I cannot scroll up to check what drives are detected and > which numbering is used. What must I do to be able to scroll up to see > what is logged to the screen? > (is there maybe a special key available, the shift+page-up and scroll is > not working) > > Thanks > Matthias > > -- > > "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to > build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to > produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning." -- > Rich Cook > > Your best bet is to boot from a livecd or gentoo minimal, and run fdisk -l to show the disk/partition listing. Also, as Neil stated, make sure your new SATA chipset drivers are compiled into the kernel and not as a module; however, it you switched from say, for example, and nvidia-based motherboard to another nvidia-based motherboard, then you don't need to worry about that.
