Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-15 Thread Mick
On Thursday 11 December 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Clone that config: make cloneconfig How does this compare to make oldconfig? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Mick wrote: On Thursday 11 December 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Clone that config: make cloneconfig How does this compare to make oldconfig? It doesn't, because it doesn't even exist. I meant oldconfig here :P (openSUSE has a cloneconfig target and I got it mixed up here. Sorry.)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-15 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Mick wrote: On Thursday 11 December 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Clone that config: make cloneconfig How does this compare to make oldconfig? It doesn't, because it doesn't even exist. I meant oldconfig here :P (openSUSE has a cloneconfig target and I got

[gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Mick wrote: On Thursday 11 December 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Clone that config: make cloneconfig How does this compare to make oldconfig? It doesn't, because it doesn't even exist. I meant oldconfig here :P (openSUSE has a cloneconfig target

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-15 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Mick wrote: On Thursday 11 December 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Clone that config: make cloneconfig How does this compare to make oldconfig? It doesn't, because it doesn't even exist. I meant oldconfig here :P

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-12 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
On Friday 12 December 2008 08:46:00 Heinrichs, Dirk (EXT-Capgemini - DE/Dusseldorf) wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 11.12.2008, 16:59 -0600 schrieb ext Harry Putnam: These URLS seem to be loading kind of slow right now: Hmm, unfortunately they don't load at all because of DNS failure. The machine

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-12 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
On Thursday 11 December 2008 23:59:46 Harry Putnam wrote: Could please post the kernels .config (or /proc/config) and lspci output from the original, working setup? Yes, sorry I made you work so hard for the info... you did ask for more info but I got working on this thread and forgot.

[gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de writes: [...] OK, I'll give it a try. I see this in lspci [...] and this in dmesg [...] which then later detects the sdb partitions. This means that you would need to compile the following into the kernel: CONFIG_PCI CONFIG_SCSI

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-12 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
On Saturday 13 December 2008 00:54:27 Harry Putnam wrote: Thanks for your patience Dirk. You're welcome. Bye... Dirk

[gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de writes: Harry Putnam wrote: Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de writes: Harry Putnam wrote: Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de writes: [...] mptbase: ioc0: Initiating bringup ioc0: LSI53C1030 B0: Capabilities={Initiator} scsi4 : ioc0: LSI53C1030 B0,

[gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Harry Putnam wrote: [...] I then tried copying as best I can from the working kernel config of 2.6.24-r8 by running menuconfig in that directory and genkernel --menuconfig all in the new kernel directory. I'd already tried the same thing but without genkernel... just calling make after

[gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [...] Just to make sure you're doing it right... [...] Forgot to mention that no initrd is needed and the grub.conf should not have an inird line.

[gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de writes: From that and the contents of the original initrd you posted in the former thread and what others already found out: This initrd has all all sorts of driver modules for SATA and SCSI chipsets, so it's most likely that you forgot to compile in

[gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de writes: Forgot this one: dmesg output from the working setup. www.jtan.com/~reader/kdiag/dmesg.html

[gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de writes: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [...] Just to make sure you're doing it right... [...] Forgot to mention that no initrd is needed and the grub.conf should not have an inird line. Ok Nikos... I'm going to do that right now but of course it will take a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-11 Thread Heinrichs, Dirk (EXT-Capgemini - DE/Dusseldorf)
Am Donnerstag, den 11.12.2008, 16:59 -0600 schrieb ext Harry Putnam: These URLS seem to be loading kind of slow right now: Hmm, unfortunately they don't load at all because of DNS failure. The machine name is unknown. Just put the files into a gzipped tar archive and attach that. Bye...

[gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Harry Putnam wrote: [...] It worked just fine. But none of my attempts to bring the kernel up to date have worked. All failing with a error message something like: `/dev/sdb3 is not a valid device'. According to your screenshot, you don't even have an sdb. All the kernel sees is one hard

[gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Harry Putnam wrote: [...] It worked just fine. But none of my attempts to bring the kernel up to date have worked. All failing with a error message something like: `/dev/sdb3 is not a valid device'. According to your screenshot, you don't even

[gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Harry Putnam wrote: Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Harry Putnam wrote: [...] It worked just fine. But none of my attempts to bring the kernel up to date have worked. All failing with a error message something like: `/dev/sdb3 is not a valid device'. According to your

[gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Harry Putnam wrote: [...] It worked just fine. But none of my attempts to bring the kernel up to date have worked. All failing with a error message something like: `/dev/sdb3 is not a valid device'. According to your screenshot, you don't even

[gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Harry Putnam wrote: [...] About sdb3. In the following dmesg output (when booting with a working kernel-2.6.24-r8 I wondered if anyone can determine what driver is involved there. I couldn't really tell much from it other than the kernel sees it with no problem:

[gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] mptbase: ioc0: Initiating bringup ioc0: LSI53C1030 B0: Capabilities={Initiator} scsi4 : ioc0: LSI53C1030 B0, FwRev=h, Ports=1, MaxQ=128, IRQ=16 That's an LSI Fusion-MPT controller. Enable: Device Drivers-[*] Fusion MPT device

[gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-10 Thread Harry Putnam
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My guess is tha while inside the initrd a kenrel module was loaded and it was something that you needed to read the boot volume. Are you statically or modulely including your sata drivers? Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile kyle, how can I discover what is in the

[gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Harry Putnam wrote: Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] mptbase: ioc0: Initiating bringup ioc0: LSI53C1030 B0: Capabilities={Initiator} scsi4 : ioc0: LSI53C1030 B0, FwRev=h, Ports=1, MaxQ=128, IRQ=16 That's an LSI Fusion-MPT controller. Enable: Device Drivers-[*]

[gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Harry Putnam wrote: Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] mptbase: ioc0: Initiating bringup ioc0: LSI53C1030 B0: Capabilities={Initiator} scsi4 : ioc0: LSI53C1030 B0, FwRev=h, Ports=1, MaxQ=128, IRQ=16 That's an LSI

[gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Harry Putnam wrote: Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Harry Putnam wrote: Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] mptbase: ioc0: Initiating bringup ioc0: LSI53C1030 B0: Capabilities={Initiator} scsi4 : ioc0: LSI53C1030 B0, FwRev=h, Ports=1, MaxQ=128, IRQ=16

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-10 Thread kyle . bader
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:24:08 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP Harry Putnam wrote: Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Harry Putnam wrote: Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes