Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.
Dale wrote: No. The update code is built into the hardware now, if just needs a FAT partition it can read the new firmware file from. Now that is kewl!! I need to make sure the next mobo I buy has that feature. ;-) Or you can just emerge syslinux and boot a floppy image on your hd from grub - as I just did with my new Abit. ;) Be lucky, Neil -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.
On Wed, 16 May 2007 17:36:47 -0500, Dale wrote: Oooops, let me rephrase that. To update the BIOS, does it have to have a OS on that stick? No. The update code is built into the hardware now, if just needs a FAT partition it can read the new firmware file from. -- Neil Bothwick I'm not broke, I'm `financially challenged'. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 16 May 2007 17:36:47 -0500, Dale wrote: Oooops, let me rephrase that. To update the BIOS, does it have to have a OS on that stick? No. The update code is built into the hardware now, if just needs a FAT partition it can read the new firmware file from. Now that is kewl!! I need to make sure the next mobo I buy has that feature. ;-) Thanks for the info. Dale :-) :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967 Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.
Karl Haines wrote: Actually, updating the BIOS to the newest version is almost ALWAYS a good thing. I keep all the BIOSs im my machines uptodate (8 at the moment, building another tomorrow). ;) Having XP installed makes no difference, except that you can (with some MBs) update from within windows. They ALL, however, support a BIOS update from a bootable DOS floppy. Hope this helps! I haven't owned a floppy drive in years so I have to be a bit more devious. ;) Anyway, thanks for your advice. :) Be lucky, Neil -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.
Neil Walker wrote: Karl Haines wrote: Actually, updating the BIOS to the newest version is almost ALWAYS a good thing. I keep all the BIOSs im my machines uptodate (8 at the moment, building another tomorrow). ;) Having XP installed makes no difference, except that you can (with some MBs) update from within windows. They ALL, however, support a BIOS update from a bootable DOS floppy. Hope this helps! I haven't owned a floppy drive in years so I have to be a bit more devious. ;) Anyway, thanks for your advice. :) Be lucky, Neil Now that most puters don't have a floppy, how will people update the BIOS?? I don't have windoze at all and my next rig may not have a floppy either. Will there be a way to do it from a CD/DVD? Curious. Dale :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967 Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.
On Wed, 16 May 2007 09:21:41 -0500, Dale wrote: Now that most puters don't have a floppy, how will people update the BIOS?? I don't have windoze at all and my next rig may not have a floppy either. My new Asus motherboard updates from a USB stick. -- Neil Bothwick Portable: Survives system reboot. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 16 May 2007 09:21:41 -0500, Dale wrote: Now that most puters don't have a floppy, how will people update the BIOS?? I don't have windoze at all and my next rig may not have a floppy either. My new Asus motherboard updates from a USB stick. LOL I don't have one of those either. Just my luck. At least they are looking ahead though. Dale :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967 Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.
Dale wrote: Will there be a way to do it from a CD/DVD? Curious. In many cases, yes. I updated one just last week using a CD. That BIOS had an update utilty built in to which you could boot. It looks first for a floppy then, if not found, a CD. :) Be lucky, Neil -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.
Neil Walker wrote: Dale wrote: Will there be a way to do it from a CD/DVD? Curious. In many cases, yes. I updated one just last week using a CD. That BIOS had an update utilty built in to which you could boot. It looks first for a floppy then, if not found, a CD. :) Be lucky, Neil Cool. I'm a Linux only person here so this is something that I am curious about. That wouldn't happen to have been a Abit mobo would it? I may need to update mine. My mouse has acted funny ever since I had it. It's like it has a bounce problem. A single click acts as two clicks sometimes. Thanks for the info. Dale :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967 Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.
Dale wrote: Cool. I'm a Linux only person here so this is something that I am curious about. That wouldn't happen to have been a Abit mobo would it? No, sorry. It was an Asus - which is mostly what I buy. However, the one arriving tomorrow is an Abit so I might know a bit more about them by then. My previous Abit was a PII-400 machine. ;) FWIW, my next one will be a Tyan dual socket F in a few weeks time. ;) Be lucky, Neil -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.
On Wed, 16 May 2007 09:54:09 -0500 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 16 May 2007 09:21:41 -0500, Dale wrote: Now that most puters don't have a floppy, how will people update the BIOS?? I don't have windoze at all and my next rig may not have a floppy either. My new Asus motherboard updates from a USB stick. LOL I don't have one of those either. Just my luck. At least they are looking ahead though. Dale USB sticks are virtually worthless nowadays, for a couple tens of dollars you should be able to get one with a capacity of a few gigs. There's also the possibility of writing directly to the cmos with /dev/nvram, isn't there? It's a character device driver in the kernel. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.
Dan Farrell wrote: On Wed, 16 May 2007 09:54:09 -0500 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 16 May 2007 09:21:41 -0500, Dale wrote: Now that most puters don't have a floppy, how will people update the BIOS?? I don't have windoze at all and my next rig may not have a floppy either. My new Asus motherboard updates from a USB stick. LOL I don't have one of those either. Just my luck. At least they are looking ahead though. Dale USB sticks are virtually worthless nowadays, for a couple tens of dollars you should be able to get one with a capacity of a few gigs. There's also the possibility of writing directly to the cmos with /dev/nvram, isn't there? It's a character device driver in the kernel. I didn't know they were that cheap. Don't they require a OS though? I don't have windoze around here. ;-) Dale :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967 Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.
Neil Walker wrote: Dale wrote: Cool. I'm a Linux only person here so this is something that I am curious about. That wouldn't happen to have been a Abit mobo would it? No, sorry. It was an Asus - which is mostly what I buy. However, the one arriving tomorrow is an Abit so I might know a bit more about them by then. My previous Abit was a PII-400 machine. ;) FWIW, my next one will be a Tyan dual socket F in a few weeks time. ;) Be lucky, Neil I'm planning to try to build me a new rig soon, I hope. I wouldn't mind if you emailed me off list with how that went. I run folding here so I need all the cores I can get. :-) Dale :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967 Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dale wrote: USB sticks are virtually worthless nowadays, for a couple tens of dollars you should be able to get one with a capacity of a few gigs. There's also the possibility of writing directly to the cmos with /dev/nvram, isn't there? It's a character device driver in the kernel. I didn't know they were that cheap. Don't they require a OS though? I don't have windoze around here. ;-) They work just fine in Linux! R -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGS38t7So1xaF/eR8RAkzEAKC3qHBpobIzFpZ5q8ZOCwGnJAbr1gCeKZsN 4OvwZ/dh/g0Wx6UT3CR3Rf0= =cqFs -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.
Randy Barlow wrote: Dale wrote: USB sticks are virtually worthless nowadays, for a couple tens of dollars you should be able to get one with a capacity of a few gigs. There's also the possibility of writing directly to the cmos with /dev/nvram, isn't there? It's a character device driver in the kernel. I didn't know they were that cheap. Don't they require a OS though? I don't have windoze around here. ;-) They work just fine in Linux! R Oooops, let me rephrase that. To update the BIOS, does it have to have a OS on that stick? On the other thingy: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # ls -al /dev/nv* crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 0 Apr 10 02:17 /dev/nvidia0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 255 Apr 10 02:17 /dev/nvidiactl [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # That's all the nvidia stuff I saw. Maybe I need to check on that kernel or a newer one may help. Dale :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967 Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.
Am Montag 14 Mai 2007 09:19 schrieb Neil Walker: :( Seems my chipset is one of those that doesn't support AHCI. Hi! I have a similar controller to yours and did some research recently. It seems that (allmost) all ICH7 controllers do support AHCI [1]. But I cannot activate AHCI anywhere in the BIOS. It seems this is due to some limitations of the BIOS. There was also a thread on another mailing list where it was suggested to update the BIOS. I'm currently pondering to do so but I'm not sure about how safe it is without having a winxp installation... Besides I'm not sure whether it would help. [1] http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/imst/sb/CS-012304.htm pgpW0twAszxdm.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.
Roman Zimmermann wrote: I have a similar controller to yours and did some research recently. It seems that (allmost) all ICH7 controllers do support AHCI [1]. But I cannot activate AHCI anywhere in the BIOS. It seems this is due to some limitations of the BIOS. There was also a thread on another mailing list where it was suggested to update the BIOS. I'm currently pondering to do so but I'm not sure about how safe it is without having a winxp installation... Besides I'm not sure whether it would help. [1] http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/imst/sb/CS-012304.htm I checked the FAQ on the Asus website and that states that my motherboard doesn't support AHCI. :( Be lucky, Neil -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Walker wrote: Roman Zimmermann wrote: I have a similar controller to yours and did some research recently. It seems that (allmost) all ICH7 controllers do support AHCI [1]. But I cannot activate AHCI anywhere in the BIOS. It seems this is due to some limitations of the BIOS. There was also a thread on another mailing list where it was suggested to update the BIOS. I'm currently pondering to do so but I'm not sure about how safe it is without having a winxp installation... Besides I'm not sure whether it would help. [1] http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/imst/sb/CS-012304.htm I checked the FAQ on the Asus website and that states that my motherboard doesn't support AHCI. :( Be lucky, Neil Actually, updating the BIOS to the newest version is almost ALWAYS a good thing. If the vendor has heard about such problems, they should almost always do something to fix it, and apply such fixes to their next BIOS update. I have fixed many problems (i'm a computer technician) with BIOS updates. Having XP installed makes no difference, except that you can (with some MBs) update from within windows. They ALL, however, support a BIOS update from a bootable DOS floppy. Hope this helps! Karl -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGSkTzJEKtOLl2EkMRAv/sAKCgCz5B5DbxHSBy45Z7FsyvZm7wFgCfcp0w UXOvGzTtR8ybjYXV+Erxo9U= =YEYS -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.
Am Mittwoch 16 Mai 2007 01:40 schrieb Karl Haines: I have fixed many problems (i'm a computer technician) with BIOS updates. Having XP installed makes no difference, except that you can (with some MBs) update from within windows. They ALL, however, support a BIOS update from a bootable DOS floppy. Hope this helps! Hi! Probably I was just frightened by some horror stories about BIOS flashing. I'll give it a shot in the next days. thanks. Roman pgplORN5zwB4y.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.
Graham Murray wrote: Did you select AHCI mode in the BIOS? On my motherboard (with ICH6R/IC6RW) there is an option to set SATA mode to IDE, RAID or AHCI. The item is there in the BIOS but only has one setting available - IDE. :( Seems my chipset is one of those that doesn't support AHCI. lspci reports this: 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01) 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controller IDE (rev 01) The motherboard is an Asus P5LD2-VM. Be lucky, Neil -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.
Graham Murray wrote: According to the Linux sata site (http://linux-ata.org/driver-status.html) the AHCI driver supports all the SATA features such as NCQ (Native Command Queueing) and hotplug but the PIIX module does not support these. I've been running the PIIX driver for quite some time and everything appears to work OK so it hadn't occurred to me to go looking at other drivers. ;) Maybe I should take a closer look at AHCI - especially as it seems Intel are listed as a sponsor, so it must have their approval. :) Be lucky, Neil -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.
Neil Walker wrote: Maybe I should take a closer look at AHCI - especially as it seems Intel are listed as a sponsor, so it must have their approval. :) Well, it didn't work - just resulted in a kernel panic. It seems AHCI is only supported by SOME ICH6,7,8 interfaces. :( Be lucky, Neil -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.
Neil Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, it didn't work - just resulted in a kernel panic. It seems AHCI is only supported by SOME ICH6,7,8 interfaces. :( Did you select AHCI mode in the BIOS? On my motherboard (with ICH6R/IC6RW) there is an option to set SATA mode to IDE, RAID or AHCI. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.
Thank you both Neil Bothwick andAlan McKinnon for the great help. Got this one working now. Still many features arn't working yet such as alsa and wifi but I think I will make it now. The driver I needed seem to be AHCI SATA. Was rather difficult to identify that that is the right driver because lspci states: 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller (rev 04) and you can't find 82801 in .config Also it seems to me that the driver should be statically loaded and not as a module (which now makes sense unless I could have changed things in modules.conf or similar). May I suggest/encourage people to write summaries (such as was a custom in sun managers mailing list (sun.unc.edu?) so other people can learn and save time? Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 11 May 2007, David Harel wrote: Sorry for not providing details (was sure people will identify the problem in a glance). Upgrade is from 2.6.17-r8 OK, you seem to have run into the Lets rip IDE out of the kernel and replace it with ATA thing that happened in 2.6.18... In menuconfig , under Drivers, there's a menu a little bit below the IDE?MFM stuff. It's called SATA/PATA or similar. You will find appropriate settings for your hardware there. I can't elabortae as I don't know what you have, but you disk settings seem to be IDE Attached the panic message: VFS: cannot open root device sda1 or unknown block (0,0) please append a correct root= boot option. Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown - block (0,0) Please, please, please always quote the correct error messages and leave your personal evaluation out of it. See how the above says absolutely nothing about ext3? But your original post was all about that, and without the actual error and .config, we would have spent hours trying to get your fs working, when in fault it is not faulty... -- Regards. David Harel, == Home office +972 77 7657645 Fax:+972 77 7657645 Cellular: +972 54 4534502 Snail Mail: Amuka D.N Merom Hagalil 13802 Israel Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.
David Harel wrote: The driver I needed seem to be AHCI SATA. What makes you think that? Was rather difficult to identify that that is the right driver because lspci states: 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller (rev 04) and you can't find 82801 in .config It's the Intel PIIX driver for the Intel ICH family, etc. You didn't look for Intel or ICH? Be lucky, Neil -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.
I read this: http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0510.3/2003.html and figured out the driver name. Are they compatible? cos that's the one setup and I am up and running. I'll try the driver you suggested and see if it works. Neil Walker wrote: David Harel wrote: The driver I needed seem to be AHCI SATA. What makes you think that? Was rather difficult to identify that that is the right driver because lspci states: 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller (rev 04) and you can't find 82801 in .config It's the Intel PIIX driver for the Intel ICH family, etc. You didn't look for Intel or ICH? Be lucky, Neil -- Regards. David Harel, == Home office +972 77 7657645 Fax:+972 77 7657645 Cellular: +972 54 4534502 Snail Mail: Amuka D.N Merom Hagalil 13802 Israel Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.
Neil Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's the Intel PIIX driver for the Intel ICH family, etc. You didn't look for Intel or ICH? For the ICH6 and later, I think that the AHCI driver is better than PIIX_ATA. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.
Graham Murray wrote: Neil Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's the Intel PIIX driver for the Intel ICH family, etc. You didn't look for Intel or ICH? For the ICH6 and later, I think that the AHCI driver is better than PIIX_ATA. How can I evaluate the different solutions (They both work)? -- Regards. David Harel, == Home office +972 77 7657645 Fax:+972 77 7657645 Cellular: +972 54 4534502 Snail Mail: Amuka D.N Merom Hagalil 13802 Israel Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.
David Harel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Graham Murray wrote: For the ICH6 and later, I think that the AHCI driver is better than PIIX_ATA. How can I evaluate the different solutions (They both work)? According to the Linux sata site (http://linux-ata.org/driver-status.html) the AHCI driver supports all the SATA features such as NCQ (Native Command Queueing) and hotplug but the PIIX module does not support these. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.
Greetings, After installing gentoo-source-2.6.20-r8 I copied my current .config file to the new kernel and did make oldconfig. I had to do define only new properties of the new kernel and the rest was taken from the original config file however, at boot time I got panic halt on root mount stating that ext3 is not supported. Double check on support for ext3 is OK. Any idea? -- Regards. David Harel, == Home office +972 77 7657645 Fax:+972 77 7657645 Cellular: +972 54 4534502 Snail Mail: Amuka D.N Merom Hagalil 13802 Israel Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.
On Friday 11 May 2007, David Harel wrote: Greetings, After installing gentoo-source-2.6.20-r8 I copied my current .config file to the new kernel and did make oldconfig. I had to do define only new properties of the new kernel and the rest was taken from the original config file however, at boot time I got panic halt on root mount stating that ext3 is not supported. Double check on support for ext3 is OK. Any idea? Given the actual information you posted above, none whatsoever. Please post your .config and the version number of the kernel you were upgrading from and we'll all take a look-see alan -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.
Am Freitag, 11. Mai 2007 schrieb ext David Harel: After installing gentoo-source-2.6.20-r8 I copied my current .config file to the new kernel and did make oldconfig. I had to do define only new properties of the new kernel and the rest was taken from the original config file however, at boot time I got panic halt on root mount stating that ext3 is not supported. Double check on support for ext3 is OK. Could you please, in addition to what Alan requested, post the _exact_ message? Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanheimerstraße 68 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40468 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: www.keyserver.net signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.
Sorry for not providing details (was sure people will identify the problem in a glance). Upgrade is from 2.6.17-r8 Attached the panic message: VFS: cannot open root device sda1 or unknown block (0,0) please append a correct root= boot option. Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown - block (0,0) Attached the .config file (after converted to 2.6.20-r8 - make oldconfig - just hit the enter key) lilo is double checked. Below the relevant section. boot=/dev/sda root=/dev/sda1 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-r8.v0 label=SDA1-20-r8.v0 append=root=/dev/sda1 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 11 May 2007, David Harel wrote: Greetings, After installing gentoo-source-2.6.20-r8 I copied my current .config file to the new kernel and did make oldconfig. I had to do define only new properties of the new kernel and the rest was taken from the original config file however, at boot time I got panic halt on root mount stating that ext3 is not supported. Double check on support for ext3 is OK. Any idea? Given the actual information you posted above, none whatsoever. Please post your .config and the version number of the kernel you were upgrading from and we'll all take a look-see alan -- Regards. David Harel, == Home office +972 77 7657645 Fax:+972 77 7657645 Cellular: +972 54 4534502 Snail Mail: Amuka D.N Merom Hagalil 13802 Israel Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Automatically generated make config: don't edit # Linux kernel version: 2.6.20-gentoo-r8 # Fri May 11 16:54:29 2007 # CONFIG_X86_32=y CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME=y CONFIG_LOCKDEP_SUPPORT=y CONFIG_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT=y CONFIG_SEMAPHORE_SLEEPERS=y CONFIG_X86=y CONFIG_MMU=y CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA=y CONFIG_GENERIC_IOMAP=y CONFIG_GENERIC_BUG=y CONFIG_GENERIC_HWEIGHT=y CONFIG_ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC=y CONFIG_DMI=y CONFIG_DEFCONFIG_LIST=/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config # # Code maturity level options # CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y CONFIG_BROKEN_ON_SMP=y CONFIG_LOCK_KERNEL=y CONFIG_INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT=32 # # General setup # CONFIG_LOCALVERSION= CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO=y CONFIG_SWAP=y CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y # CONFIG_IPC_NS is not set CONFIG_POSIX_MQUEUE=y # CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT is not set # CONFIG_TASKSTATS is not set # CONFIG_UTS_NS is not set CONFIG_AUDIT=y CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL=y CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC=y CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y # CONFIG_RELAY is not set CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE= # CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE is not set CONFIG_SYSCTL=y # CONFIG_EMBEDDED is not set CONFIG_UID16=y CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL=y CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y # CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is not set CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y CONFIG_PRINTK=y CONFIG_BUG=y CONFIG_ELF_CORE=y CONFIG_BASE_FULL=y CONFIG_FUTEX=y CONFIG_EPOLL=y CONFIG_SHMEM=y CONFIG_SLAB=y CONFIG_VM_EVENT_COUNTERS=y CONFIG_RT_MUTEXES=y # CONFIG_TINY_SHMEM is not set CONFIG_BASE_SMALL=0 # CONFIG_SLOB is not set # # Loadable module support # CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y CONFIG_MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD=y # CONFIG_MODVERSIONS is not set # CONFIG_MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL is not set CONFIG_KMOD=y # # Block layer # CONFIG_BLOCK=y CONFIG_LBD=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE is not set # CONFIG_LSF is not set # # IO Schedulers # CONFIG_IOSCHED_NOOP=y CONFIG_IOSCHED_AS=y CONFIG_IOSCHED_DEADLINE=y CONFIG_IOSCHED_CFQ=y CONFIG_DEFAULT_AS=y # CONFIG_DEFAULT_DEADLINE is not set # CONFIG_DEFAULT_CFQ is not set # CONFIG_DEFAULT_NOOP is not set CONFIG_DEFAULT_IOSCHED=anticipatory # # Processor type and features # # CONFIG_SMP is not set CONFIG_X86_PC=y # CONFIG_X86_ELAN is not set # CONFIG_X86_VOYAGER is not set # CONFIG_X86_NUMAQ is not set # CONFIG_X86_SUMMIT is not set # CONFIG_X86_BIGSMP is not set # CONFIG_X86_VISWS is not set # CONFIG_X86_GENERICARCH is not set # CONFIG_X86_ES7000 is not set # CONFIG_PARAVIRT is not set # CONFIG_M386 is not set # CONFIG_M486 is not set # CONFIG_M586 is not set # CONFIG_M586TSC is not set # CONFIG_M586MMX is not set # CONFIG_M686 is not set # CONFIG_MPENTIUMII is not set # CONFIG_MPENTIUMIII is not set CONFIG_MPENTIUMM=y # CONFIG_MCORE2 is not set # CONFIG_MPENTIUM4 is not set # CONFIG_MK6 is not set # CONFIG_MK7 is not set # CONFIG_MK8 is not set # CONFIG_MCRUSOE is not set # CONFIG_MEFFICEON is not set # CONFIG_MWINCHIPC6 is not set # CONFIG_MWINCHIP2 is not set # CONFIG_MWINCHIP3D is not set # CONFIG_MGEODEGX1 is not set # CONFIG_MGEODE_LX is not set # CONFIG_MCYRIXIII is not set # CONFIG_MVIAC3_2 is not set # CONFIG_X86_GENERIC is not set CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG=y CONFIG_X86_XADD=y CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=6 CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM=y # CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_ILOG2_U32 is not set # CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_ILOG2_U64 is not set CONFIG_GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY=y CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG64=y CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_INTEL_USERCOPY=y CONFIG_X86_USE_PPRO_CHECKSUM=y CONFIG_X86_TSC=y
Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.
On Friday 11 May 2007 16:39, David Harel wrote: lilo is double checked. Below the relevant section. boot=/dev/sda root=/dev/sda1 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-r8.v0 label=SDA1-20-r8.v0 append=root=/dev/sda1 This last line, written this way, looks wrong or at least useless to me. Try to change it into the simpler root = /dev/sda1 or remove it altogether, since you already specified the root device in the global section. Also, you seem to have a SCSI or SATA drive (the output of lspci would help here). All SCSI low-level drivers are disabled in your config, so I guess you have a SATA drive. But, you have also disabled all the SATA drivers (it's the Serial ATA (prod) and Parallel ATA (experimental) drivers section). This could happen if you did make oldconfig using a pre-2.6.19 config file, because SATA drivers moved under CONFIG_ATA starting from 2.6.19. If so, do a make menuconfig and double check that all the drivers you need are compiled into your kernel. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.
On Fri, 11 May 2007 17:39:57 +0300, David Harel wrote: Upgrade is from 2.6.17-r8 Attached the panic message: VFS: cannot open root device sda1 or unknown block (0,0) please append a correct root= boot option. Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown - block (0,0) You've been bitten by the same thing that hit most other SATA users. The SATA config options moved between 2.6.18 and 2.6.19 so your SATA chipset driver is no longer compiled in to the kernel. Do a make menuconfig, hit / and search for your SATA driver and enable it. -- Neil Bothwick If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnish his wages? signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Panic at boot time after update kernel to 2.6.20-r8.
On Friday 11 May 2007, David Harel wrote: Sorry for not providing details (was sure people will identify the problem in a glance). Upgrade is from 2.6.17-r8 OK, you seem to have run into the Lets rip IDE out of the kernel and replace it with ATA thing that happened in 2.6.18... In menuconfig , under Drivers, there's a menu a little bit below the IDE?MFM stuff. It's called SATA/PATA or similar. You will find appropriate settings for your hardware there. I can't elabortae as I don't know what you have, but you disk settings seem to be IDE Attached the panic message: VFS: cannot open root device sda1 or unknown block (0,0) please append a correct root= boot option. Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown - block (0,0) Please, please, please always quote the correct error messages and leave your personal evaluation out of it. See how the above says absolutely nothing about ext3? But your original post was all about that, and without the actual error and .config, we would have spent hours trying to get your fs working, when in fault it is not faulty... -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
