On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 20:11, Ignas Anikevičius <[email protected]> wrote: > On 29 April 2012 18:35, Ignas Anikevičius <[email protected]> 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. >> >> Some info about my system: >> running ~amd64 >> kernel: gentoo-sources-3.3.3 >> bootloader: grub2-9999 (grub.cfg generated with grub2-mkconfig -o >> /boot/grub2/grub.cfg) >> root partition is ext4, but ext4 is built into kernel >> I have a separate /boot partition >> >> my grub.cfg can be found here: >> http://pastebin.com/nm6HCkpM >> >> I have written down some log messages from the last boot. Sorry if >> something is not 100% accurate as I took a crappy picture with my phone and >> tried to rewrite everything: >> http://pastebin.com/0zQN6X5t >> >> I would very appreciate someones help. >> >> Thanks, >> Ignas A. > > > Hello to everybody once more. I gave it ago and installed drivers for all > storage related controllers, but nothing has changed. As I understand, the > hdd is recognized, so I do not know where to look now. > > The log can be see in this image: > http://s10.postimage.org/hieljd661/29042012017.jpg > > I tried to rewrite it here: > ====================================================================== > ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) > ata1.00: ACPI cmd ... > ... > ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 > scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA WDC WD3200... > ... > ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) > ata2.00: ACPI cmd ... > ata2.00: ATAPI: Optiarc DVD RW AD-... > .. > ata2.00: configured for UDMA/100 > scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM > registered taskstats version 1 > Magic number... > pci_link ... : hash matches > console ... enabled > netconsole: network logging started > Root-NFS: no NFS server address > VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy > VFS: Cannot open root device "sda7" or unknown-block(2,0) > Please append a correct "root=" boot option: here are the available > partitions: > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on > unknown-block(2,0) > Pid: 1, comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.3.3-gentoo #7 > Call Trace: > ... panic > ... ? printk > ... mount_block_root > ... mount_root > ... prepare_namespace > ... kernel_init > ... kernel_thread > ... ? start_kernel > ... ? gs_change > panic occured, switching back to text console > ========================================================================== > > Thanks, > Ignas >
Well, going through the list that comes to mind after that... the block device itself, since the scsi layer sees the device but the VFS layer doesn't see the block device: CONFIG_BLOCK=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
