Re: [gentoo-user] Find root partition

2011-01-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 19:35:09 -0800, John Campbell wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Find root partition

2011-01-20 Thread du yang
On Thursday 01/20/11 00:52:40 CST, Mark Shields wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Find root partition

2011-01-20 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, On 20.01.11 04:35, John Campbell wrote: I had that problem or something similar some time ago when updating to the new, at the time, pata drivers. I ended up using a brute force technique... I booted grub to it's built in shell and used it's limited tools to figure out which

Re: [gentoo-user] Find root partition

2011-01-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 08:49 on Thursday 20 January 2011, Matthias Fechner did opine thusly: Hi, On 20.01.11 04:35, John Campbell wrote: I had that problem or something similar some time ago when updating to the new, at the time, pata drivers. I ended up using a brute force

Re: [gentoo-user] Find root partition

2011-01-20 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, On 20.01.11 11:45, Alan McKinnon wrote: The whole point of a panic is that the kernel stops executing code. It has to, something has gone badly wrong and it's too risky to continue execution of anything. Scrolling up involves running some code. You can't have it both ways. yes, you can

Re: [gentoo-user] Find root partition

2011-01-20 Thread Jarry
On 20. 1. 2011 7:49, Matthias Fechner wrote: And take a camera is absolutely impossible, from grub to kernel panic it takes around 1 second, that is faster then the display to switch the to the correct output mode. Remember, nothing is impossible! Impossible only takes two more days of

Re: [gentoo-user] Find root partition

2011-01-20 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi Jarry, Am 20.01.2011 17:13, schrieb Jarry: I had a movie-camera in mind of course (or photo-camera with ability to record movies). You turn it on, point on screen, start recording, and after that turn computer on. If it can record at least 20fps (my cheap digi-camera can make 60fps), it

Re: [gentoo-user] Find root partition

2011-01-20 Thread John Campbell
On 01/20/2011 01:28 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 19:35:09 -0800, John Campbell wrote: 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

[gentoo-user] Find root partition

2011-01-19 Thread Matthias Fechner
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Find root partition

2011-01-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 17:02:41 +0100, Matthias Fechner wrote: 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. Have you included

Re: [gentoo-user] Find root partition

2011-01-19 Thread Mark Shields
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Matthias Fechner ide...@fechner.netwrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Find root partition

2011-01-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Matthias Fechner writes: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Find root partition

2011-01-19 Thread Jarry
Matthias Fechner writes: 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. Did you recompile kernel to support your new mobo?

Re: [gentoo-user] Find root partition

2011-01-19 Thread John Campbell
On 01/20/2011 08:02 AM, Matthias Fechner 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