-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 29.04.2012 21:42, Ignas Anikevičius wrote: > On 29 April 2012 19:21, walt <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 04/29/2012 11:35 AM, Ignas Anikevičius wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> it's been several since I have tried to make my machine boot >>> again without any live CDs and I could not narrow the main >>> issue down. The problem is that the kernel can not mount the >>> root partition. >> >> The error message is unknown block(2,0), which may mean that >> your kernel lacks a driver for your disk controller. IIRC the >> kernel config menu for block devices has changed. Maybe you need >> to set CONFIG_ATA or some other obscure item in your kernel >> config to make the correct driver visible? >> > > OK, How to find out which controller I am using at the moment > whilst using a live CD? I have successfully chrooted into my system > from a Mint Live CD, so I should be able to inspect my system > either using Mint utilities or the Gentoo ones. > > Thanks, Ignas >
You could try lspci I would recommend to try it from the live cd (because under gentoo you may need to emerge it first - otherwise it doesn't matter). Within the output search for something like SATA Controller or PATA Controller. If you can't find a matching driver google for the output of lspce and kernel module. If it's a SATA device in most cases the generic AHCI (CONFIG_SATA_AHCI) seems to work. You could also try lsmod though the problem is, that you would need to know the names of possible modules. WKR Hinnerk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPnZuXAAoJEJwwOFaNFkYc89sIAJdkpDKC3oro0a2K6BFqTL0R YUrC6wiRv6uG4egKgVrpM4HfbsGFejgRDI0rFT+2qkFfkljqBSIFHJ54OrgviOr9 YzSDeodt/qzwKv3Eki0oB8XsPnOHo1pLRp2lmPpNb5YJNjlHXX6NmXNDbiYfgzdw FP6+eCErDOUjGYpyRLEn+hkHdzD8bXsLpfpEDmcWN5duUQWA7oQJV8xcA5k2kD3F P6PKGbdoXVN7TCjBDrpmDsKmzH885C2vXC2RjML75q4Wrsozn+PADfCge6e+T50s TvtA8AO777uXnqvaOlt/1RNVHz+Mzx69iLxBHGG2lMkvKMoVsIYWEvW1FpWwqcM= =RJWR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
