Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-08-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat 20 August 2011 03:48:18 Dale did opine thusly: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sat 20 August 2011 02:17:06 Dale did opine thusly: It was discussed on -dev so far. This is the subject line: Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook? I

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-08-20 Thread Gregory Woodbury
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 4:48 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I wish you could convince the devs of that. I already have /var on its own and was planning to put /usr on its own. I'm not now tho. Looks like /, /boot, /home and that's it for the OS part. It downright sucks. You

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-08-20 Thread Mick
On Saturday 20 Aug 2011 09:57:46 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sat 20 August 2011 03:48:18 Dale did opine thusly: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sat 20 August 2011 02:17:06 Dale did opine thusly: It was discussed on -dev so far. This is the subject line: Warn users not to do separate /usr

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-08-20 Thread David W Noon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 03:48:18 -0500, Dale wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot: [snip] I wish you could convince the devs of that. I already have /var on its own and was planning to put /usr on its own. I'm not now tho. Looks like

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-08-20 Thread Mick
On Saturday 20 Aug 2011 13:59:42 David W Noon wrote: On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 03:48:18 -0500, Dale wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot: [snip] I wish you could convince the devs of that. I already have /var on its own and was planning to put /usr on its own. I'm not now

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-08-20 Thread Pandu Poluan
Wel... ... the Gentoo project can always fork e2fsprogs ... ... but who will maintain it, then? Rgds, On 2011-08-20, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 20 Aug 2011 13:59:42 David W Noon wrote: On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 03:48:18 -0500, Dale wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] /dev

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-08-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat 20 August 2011 14:29:15 Mick did opine thusly: On Saturday 20 Aug 2011 13:59:42 David W Noon wrote: On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 03:48:18 -0500, Dale wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot: [snip] I wish you could convince the devs of that. I already have /var

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-08-20 Thread David W Noon
On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 20:58:53 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot: On 2011-08-20, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] This is madness. Is there anything we can do to stop it? [top posting corrected] Wel... ... the Gentoo project can

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-08-19 Thread Mick
On Friday 19 Aug 2011 03:27:23 Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:59 AM, fra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, guys It is a shame, I know, but after several years using Gentoo, it is the first time I try to build a kernel without genkernel. And now I can't boot to that new kernel,

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-08-19 Thread frares
Em 18/08/2011 23:27, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com escreveu: On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:59 AM, fra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, guys It is a shame, I know, but after several years using Gentoo, it is the first time I try to build a kernel without genkernel. And now I can't boot to that

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-08-19 Thread frares
Em 19/08/2011 07:09, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com escreveu: On Friday 19 Aug 2011 03:27:23 Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:59 AM, fra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, guys It is a shame, I know, but after several years using Gentoo, it is the first time I try to build a kernel

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-08-19 Thread Gregory Woodbury
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 9:12 AM, fra...@gmail.com wrote: Em 19/08/2011 07:09, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com escreveu: On Friday 19 Aug 2011 03:27:23 Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:59 AM, fra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, guys It is a shame, I know, but after several

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-08-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Fri 19 August 2011 13:12:25 fra...@gmail.com did opine thusly: I the case I don't need a initram, I guess that the grub line for parameter passing to the kernel would be empty. Am I wrong? Yes. Using or not using kernel parameters has nothing to do with whether you use an initramfs or

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-08-19 Thread frares
Em 19/08/2011 10:48, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com escreveu: On Fri 19 August 2011 13:12:25 fra...@gmail.com did opine thusly: I the case I don't need a initram, I guess that the grub line for parameter passing to the kernel would be empty. Am I wrong? Yes. Using or not using

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-08-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Fri 19 August 2011 15:06:46 fra...@gmail.com did opine thusly: Some Gentoo users still need an initramfs, such as booting off drives in a RAID configuration. They need the RAID drivers first to read the disks so use an initramfs to fix this little problem exactly as Ubunut fixes their

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-08-19 Thread Dale
Gregory Woodbury wrote: The initramfs is a container for modules and stuff need to bring up the system before the mounts of / and /boot.If all the drivers are built-in to the kernel (or at least the minimum required drivers are built-in) then the initramfs isn't necessary. Passing

[gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-08-18 Thread frares
Hi, guys It is a shame, I know, but after several years using Gentoo, it is the first time I try to build a kernel without genkernel. And now I can't boot to that new kernel, it does not find (and really do not have a) /dev/sda* root partition (real-root); during the boot it stops,

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-08-18 Thread András Csányi
On 18 August 2011 18:59, fra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, guys It is a shame, I know, but after several years using Gentoo, it is the first time I try to build a kernel without genkernel. And now I can't boot to that new kernel, it does not find (and really do not have a) /dev/sda* root

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-08-18 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 2:59 PM, fra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, guys It is a shame, I know, but after several years using Gentoo, it is the first time I try to build a kernel without genkernel. And now I can't boot to that new kernel, it does not find (and really do not have a) /dev/sda*

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-08-18 Thread frares
Em 18/08/2011 16:08, András Csányi sayusi.a...@gmail.com escreveu: On 18 August 2011 18:59, fra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, guys It is a shame, I know, but after several years using Gentoo, it is the first time I try to build a kernel without genkernel. And now I can't boot to that new

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-08-18 Thread frares
Em 18/08/2011 16:13, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com escreveu: On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 2:59 PM, fra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, guys It is a shame, I know, but after several years using Gentoo, it is the first time I try to build a kernel without genkernel. And now I can't boot to that new

Re: Re: Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-08-18 Thread frares
Em 18/08/2011 16:17, fra...@gmail.com escreveu: Em 18/08/2011 16:13, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com escreveu: On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 2:59 PM, fra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, guys It is a shame, I know, but after several years using Gentoo, it is the first time I try to build a kernel

Re: Re: Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-08-18 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 3:26 PM, fra...@gmail.com wrote: Em 18/08/2011 16:17, fra...@gmail.com escreveu: Forgot to say: I am able to boot the LiveCD and chroot to that partition. Now checking the kernel configuration, there's only SATA_ACARD_AHCI set up as a module, everything else AHCI is

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-08-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 18 August 2011 20:42:30 Michael Mol wrote: Don't forget to check your BIOS. You might also consider enabling SCSI-generic (disk), which would catch ide-emulated disks and put a scsi interface around them in the kernel. But it might well shove a generic driver in before the

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-08-18 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 2:59 PM, fra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, guys It is a shame, I know, but after several years using Gentoo, it is the first time I try to build a kernel without genkernel. And now I can't boot to that new kernel, it does not find (and really do not have a) /dev/sda* root

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-08-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:59 AM, fra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, guys It is a shame, I know, but after several years using Gentoo, it is the first time I try to build a kernel without genkernel. And now I can't boot to that new kernel, it does not find (and really do not have a) /dev/sda*

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-08-18 Thread Graham Murray
Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com writes: Also, check your BIOS to see if it's running your SATA controller in some kind of IDE emulation mode. If it is, disable that. (Some motherboards let you choose between IDE and RAID, where RAID is AHCI mode. Others call IDE mode 'legacy', and still others

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