> Yep, that's my next step. I'll possibly need to ask some > questions about > how to do that at this point. I don't want to do a complete > reinstallation just to do that, and I doubt I have to. Can I not just > mount the installation CD and then somehow mount and build the kernel > from what's already on my drive? > > I've managed to reboot from the installation CD.The boot > sequence that I > see when booting from the CD: > > NFORCE2: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:09.0 > NFORCE2: chipset revision 162 > NFORCE2: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later > ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA > ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA > SiL3112 Serial-ATA: IDE controller at PCI slot 01:0b.0 > SiL3112 Serial-ATA: chipset revision 2 > SiL3112 Serial-ATA: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later > ide2: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio > ide3: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio > > At this point the machine happily goes on, finds all the drives on all > the controllers and boots, but in my case the Serial-ATA stuff never > shows up and the machine's hung. > > I should (hopefully) know later this evening if genkernel is the > culprit. As a starting point, if I can find the config file for the > kernel on my Athlon-XP CD then I'll probably get a working box. > > Now, what do I need to know about building a kernel by hand in the > middle of the reboot and remount stuff I'm going through?
what kernel are you compiling anyway?? gentoo-sources I thought compiles exactly like the live-cd from what I hear. Have you tried that too?? My guess is your probably didn't compile that driver internally, and its not finding it in initrd.. compiling a kernel is make menuconfig;make dep;make clean;make bzImage;make modules;make modules_install.. I have never done the initrd thing on my own.. So someone else would have to help you do that. I compile anything I need to get root up, internally.. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
