Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic

2007-05-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 24 May 2007 20:44:10 -0400, Denis wrote: I have an Intel D975XBX2 motherboard with an Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 processor. One Seagate SATA drive. An IDE CD-RW. Pretty much all the controllers on the board are Intel. One concern I have - when I configure the kernel, I fail to see

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic

2007-05-24 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Freitag, 25. Mai 2007, Denis wrote: This is the first time ever that I ended up with an unbootable kernel after a new install, and I have no idea where to start. This is a fresh install of Gentoo 2007.0 minimal CD stage 3, using the x86 quick install guide. Here's the error I get at boot

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic

2007-05-24 Thread Denis
like copying the relevant parts of dmesg for us to see? maybe it is a missing sata-driver, missing scsi-disk support? I wanted to attach a dmesg output but I don't know how where I can extract it. It's a fresh install, and the only way I can boot right now is with the Gentoo CD... The file

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic

2007-05-24 Thread david
What make and model motherboard? Did you set the clock with date? Did you cp your zone information? -- Powered by Gentoo/Linux -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic

2007-05-24 Thread Denis
I have an Intel D975XBX2 motherboard with an Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 processor. One Seagate SATA drive. An IDE CD-RW. Pretty much all the controllers on the board are Intel. I did re-set the clock, after which the make stopped complaining. One concern I have - when I configure the kernel, I

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic

2007-05-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/24/07, Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an Intel D975XBX2 motherboard with an Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 processor. One Seagate SATA drive. An IDE CD-RW. Pretty much all the controllers on the board are Intel. I did re-set the clock, after which the make stopped complaining. One

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic

2007-05-24 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Freitag, 25. Mai 2007, Denis wrote: I have an Intel D975XBX2 motherboard with an Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 processor. One Seagate SATA drive. An IDE CD-RW. Pretty much all the controllers on the board are Intel. I did re-set the clock, after which the make stopped complaining. One

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic

2007-05-24 Thread Denis
Device Drivers: Serial ATA (prod) and Parallel ATA (experimental) drivers --- one below scsi, two below ide. Yes, I combed through that and set all the necessary options there before, so I doubt this is the problem... I've just reconfigured the kernel and recompiled it on another fresh

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic

2007-05-24 Thread Denis
SOLVED. I was able to configure and compile the kernel and configure a working Gentoo system that gives me no errors at boot :-) I am not sure what went wrong the first time. I selected the same basic driver support within the kernel as the first time, except I didn't bother with some of the

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic

2007-05-24 Thread Dale
Denis wrote: SOLVED. I was able to configure and compile the kernel and configure a working Gentoo system that gives me no errors at boot :-) I am not sure what went wrong the first time. I selected the same basic driver support within the kernel as the first time, except I didn't bother

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic

2007-05-24 Thread Dale
Denis wrote: I have ran into things like this before, I usually run make mrproper from within the kernel directory to make sure there is no old cruft laying around in there. In my case, it was a fresh install, which made it quite a bit more painful to fix because I had to go through the

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device - kernel panic

2007-05-24 Thread Denis
I have ran into things like this before, I usually run make mrproper from within the kernel directory to make sure there is no old cruft laying around in there. In my case, it was a fresh install, which made it quite a bit more painful to fix because I had to go through the procedures twice and