Kyle Adams skrev: > On 12/11/09 16:43, Dale wrote: >> Erik wrote: >>> Now I am trying to install Gentoo on a new system but when try to emerge >>> gentoo-sources (as I am supposed to), it hangs at "Applying >>> 4400_alpha-sysctl-uac.patch". This problem is also known as bug #291389. >>> I see with top in another virtual terminal that rm uses 100% CPU. Is >>> there any way to continue the installation? >>> >>> >> Maybe try a different version of gentoo-sources? >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) > Vanilla-sources will solve the problem until boot time, unless you have > ext4 partitions.
Now I have seen what happens when trying to boot a vanilla kernel with ext4 partitions: [ 1.558600] VFS: Cannot open root device "803" or unknown-block(8,3) [ 1.558807] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions: [ 1.559061] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,3) [ 1.559285] Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.31.6 #2 [ 1.559483] Call Trace: [ 1.559687] [<ffffffff812a0619>] ? panic+0x86/0x128 [ 1.559891] [<ffffffff8140e123>] ? printk_all_partitions+0x1dc/0x1ee [ 1.560111] [<ffffffff810962a8>] ? sys_mount+0xba/0xce [ 1.560339] [<ffffffff813fc461>] ? mount_block_root+0x25e/0x27c [ 1.560543] [<ffffffff813fc5fa>] ? prepare_namespace+0x12c/0x156 [ 1.560746] [<ffffffff813fbbd6>] ? kernel_init+0x18b/0x19b [ 1.560949] [<ffffffff8100bdba>] ? child_rip+0xa/0x20 [ 1.561179] [<ffffffff8115562f>] ? acpi_tb_verify_table+0x21/0x4f [ 1.561382] [<ffffffff813fba4b>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x19b [ 1.561583] [<ffffffff8100bdb0>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20
