Re: [gentoo-user] EFI install ( continum) [ system hangs at boot ]

2015-03-02 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 2:00 AM, Fernando Rodriguez frodriguez.develo...@outlook.com wrote: On Saturday, February 28, 2015 12:50:37 PM Tom H wrote: On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 5:47 PM, Fernando Rodriguez frodriguez.develo...@outlook.com wrote: Efibootmgr is not a boot manager, it's an utility to

Re: [gentoo-user] EFI install ( continum) [ system hangs at boot ]

2015-03-01 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Saturday, February 28, 2015 12:50:37 PM Tom H wrote: On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 5:47 PM, Fernando Rodriguez frodriguez.develo...@outlook.com wrote: Efibootmgr is not a boot manager, it's an utility to interface with the EFI firmware on the motherboard and you don't need to hardcode the

Re: [gentoo-user] EFI install ( continum) [ system hangs at boot ]

2015-02-28 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 5:47 PM, Fernando Rodriguez frodriguez.develo...@outlook.com wrote: Efibootmgr is not a boot manager, it's an utility to interface with the EFI firmware on the motherboard and you don't need to hardcode the command line on the kernel, look at the -u option of

Re: [gentoo-user] EFI install ( continum) [ system hangs at boot ]

2015-02-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 07:49:20 -0500, German wrote: The kernel cannot find the block device containing your root filesystem. Either you have given the wrong root= option to the kernel Are you talking about this? UEFI does not pass kernel parameters to the kernel during normal boot,

Re: [gentoo-user] EFI install ( continum) [ system hangs at boot ]

2015-02-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 07:23:42 -0500, German wrote: Ok gentooers. I did manage to install gentoo on EFI, it boots, however hangs at Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block ( 0,0) Does anyone have an idea what is going on? The kernel cannot find

Re: [gentoo-user] EFI install ( continum) [ system hangs at boot ]

2015-02-27 Thread German
On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 12:12:24 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 06:53:32 -0500, German wrote: Ok gentooers. I did manage to install gentoo on EFI, it boots, however hangs at Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block ( 0,0)

Re: [gentoo-user] EFI install ( continum) [ system hangs at boot ]

2015-02-27 Thread German
On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 12:12:24 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 06:53:32 -0500, German wrote: Ok gentooers. I did manage to install gentoo on EFI, it boots, however hangs at Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block ( 0,0)

Re: [gentoo-user] EFI install ( continum) [ system hangs at boot ]

2015-02-27 Thread German
On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 14:15:04 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 07:49:20 -0500, German wrote: The kernel cannot find the block device containing your root filesystem. Either you have given the wrong root= option to the kernel Are you talking about

Re: [gentoo-user] EFI install ( continum) [ system hangs at boot ]

2015-02-27 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: You can still use the kernel stub to boot directly your OS, but you may need to specify the root fs, if it is BTRFS (not sure about others): $ grep CONFIG_CMDLINE /usr/src/linux/.config # CONFIG_CMDLINE_PARTITION is not

Re: [gentoo-user] EFI install ( continum) [ system hangs at boot ]

2015-02-27 Thread Mick
On Friday 27 Feb 2015 15:14:18 German wrote: On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 14:15:04 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 07:49:20 -0500, German wrote: The kernel cannot find the block device containing your root filesystem. Either you have given the wrong root=

Re: [gentoo-user] EFI install ( continum) [ system hangs at boot ]

2015-02-27 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Friday, February 27, 2015 10:14:18 AM German wrote: Hmm.. I was using some sort of boot manager, efibootmgr, however there was no word in install docs how to configure it to point to root device.. So, are you advising on gummiboot? Are people happy with it? I found gentoo wiki how to

[gentoo-user] EFI install ( continum) [ system hangs at boot ]

2015-02-27 Thread German
Ok gentooers. I did manage to install gentoo on EFI, it boots, however hangs at Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block ( 0,0) Does anyone have an idea what is going on? Is that fstab, something else? I appreciate any advice. I want my laptop runs Gentoo. --

Re: [gentoo-user] EFI install ( continum) [ system hangs at boot ]

2015-02-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 06:53:32 -0500, German wrote: Ok gentooers. I did manage to install gentoo on EFI, it boots, however hangs at Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block ( 0,0) Does anyone have an idea what is going on? The kernel cannot find the block