Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panic on manually built kernel

2010-11-08 Thread Coert Waagmeester
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Thursday 04 November 2010, dhk wrote: I've always used the genkernel, but now am trying to make a manual one. I think the kernel is alright since all the default setting seemed reasonable and the build was easy enough. However, when I boot to it I get a kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panic on manually built kernel

2010-11-08 Thread dhk
On 11/08/2010 05:28 AM, Coert Waagmeester wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Thursday 04 November 2010, dhk wrote: I've always used the genkernel, but now am trying to make a manual one. I think the kernel is alright since all the default setting seemed reasonable and the build was easy

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panic on manually built kernel

2010-11-08 Thread Coert Waagmeester
dhk wrote: On 11/08/2010 05:28 AM, Coert Waagmeester wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Thursday 04 November 2010, dhk wrote: I've always used the genkernel, but now am trying to make a manual one. I think the kernel is alright since all the default setting seemed reasonable and the build

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panic on manually built kernel

2010-11-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 08 November 2010, dhk wrote: On 11/08/2010 05:28 AM, Coert Waagmeester wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Thursday 04 November 2010, dhk wrote: I've always used the genkernel, but now am trying to make a manual one. I think the kernel is alright since all the default

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panic on manually built kernel

2010-11-08 Thread Dale
Coert Waagmeester wrote: It has indeed happened to me with an IDE PATA disk. Try first only to change only your grub config. Then if you see that the kernel boots fine, you can change /etc/fstab. If you want you can even use LABELs in fstab. give your ext{2,3} partitions labels with e2label

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panic on manually built kernel

2010-11-08 Thread Stroller
On 8/11/2010, at 5:56pm, Dale wrote: ... I have not been able to get grub to see the LABELS yet but I'm going to post fstab so that you have a example that is known to work and not from a guide: /dev/disk/by-label/boot/bootext2noatime1 2

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panic on manually built kernel

2010-11-08 Thread Dale
Stroller wrote: On 8/11/2010, at 5:56pm, Dale wrote: ... I have not been able to get grub to see the LABELS yet but I'm going to post fstab so that you have a example that is known to work and not from a guide: /dev/disk/by-label/boot/bootext2noatime1 2

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panic on manually built kernel

2010-11-08 Thread Stroller
On 8/11/2010, at 9:34pm, Dale wrote: ... Wouldn't happen to have LABELS in your grub.conf file would you? Nope. I believe this requires an initramfs - see the February 2009 thread, `Using root=LABEL= in grub.conf` for more details of that. I seem to rather have an aversion to

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panic on manually built kernel

2010-11-08 Thread Dale
Stroller wrote: On 8/11/2010, at 9:34pm, Dale wrote: ... Wouldn't happen to have LABELS in your grub.conf file would you? Nope. I believe this requires an initramfs - see the February 2009 thread, `Using root=LABEL= in grub.conf` for more details of that. I seem to rather have

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panic on manually built kernel

2010-11-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:34:08 -0600, Dale wrote: Well, it does work since it booted as recent as last night when I updated my kernel. I found that somewhere and just copied that to mine. It may be the long way but it does work. I may edit it and try it your way but since mine works and I

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panic on manually built kernel

2010-11-08 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:34:08 -0600, Dale wrote: Well, it does work since it booted as recent as last night when I updated my kernel. I found that somewhere and just copied that to mine. It may be the long way but it does work. I may edit it and try it your way but

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panic on manually built kernel

2010-11-08 Thread Stroller
On 8/11/2010, at 10:39pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:34:08 -0600, Dale wrote: Well, it does work since it booted as recent as last night when I updated my kernel. I found that somewhere and just copied that to mine. It may be the long way but it does work. I may edit

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panic on manually built kernel

2010-11-05 Thread dhk
On 11/04/2010 03:25 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 19:36 on Thursday 04 November 2010, dhk did opine thusly: On 11/04/2010 01:08 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:00:21 -0400, dhk wrote: The reason I didn't include the exact error is that I can't

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panic on manually built kernel

2010-11-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 11:29 on Friday 05 November 2010, dhk did opine thusly: Is your / partition in or out of the lvm? The / is out of lvm2 and is ext3, /boot is ext2. Ok, that's the easiest way. Seeing inside lvm at boot-time is no fun. But I think Niel spotted your real

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panic on manually built kernel

2010-11-05 Thread dhk
On 11/04/2010 03:51 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:36:25 -0400, dhk wrote: The ext2 wasn't compiled in, so I compiled it in and rebooted. I got the same error. kernel panic - not syncing : VFS: unable to mount root FS on unknown-block (2,0) It's saying unknown block,

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panic on manually built kernel

2010-11-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 11:47 on Friday 05 November 2010, dhk did opine thusly: On 11/04/2010 03:51 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:36:25 -0400, dhk wrote: The ext2 wasn't compiled in, so I compiled it in and rebooted. I got the same error. kernel panic - not

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panic on manually built kernel

2010-11-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 05:47:42 -0400, dhk wrote: It's saying unknown block, not unknown fs. I suspect you haven't compiled in the drivers for your hard disk controller. All my hard disks are sata except the main one with the os on it that is ide. Is a fairly new disk, may be a year

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panic on manually built kernel

2010-11-05 Thread dhk
On 11/05/2010 06:33 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 05:47:42 -0400, dhk wrote: It's saying unknown block, not unknown fs. I suspect you haven't compiled in the drivers for your hard disk controller. All my hard disks are sata except the main one with the os on it that is

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panic on manually built kernel

2010-11-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 04 November 2010, dhk wrote: I've always used the genkernel, but now am trying to make a manual one. I think the kernel is alright since all the default setting seemed reasonable and the build was easy enough. However, when I boot to it I get a kernel panic and it complains about

[gentoo-user] kernel panic on manually built kernel

2010-11-04 Thread dhk
I've always used the genkernel, but now am trying to make a manual one. I think the kernel is alright since all the default setting seemed reasonable and the build was easy enough. However, when I boot to it I get a kernel panic and it complains about the root device /dev/hda3. So I think the

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panic on manually built kernel

2010-11-04 Thread Dale
dhk wrote: I've always used the genkernel, but now am trying to make a manual one. I think the kernel is alright since all the default setting seemed reasonable and the build was easy enough. However, when I boot to it I get a kernel panic and it complains about the root device /dev/hda3. So

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panic on manually built kernel

2010-11-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 18:34 on Thursday 04 November 2010, dhk did opine thusly: I've always used the genkernel, but now am trying to make a manual one. I think the kernel is alright since all the default setting seemed reasonable and the build was easy enough. However, when I boot

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panic on manually built kernel

2010-11-04 Thread dhk
On 11/04/2010 12:52 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 18:34 on Thursday 04 November 2010, dhk did opine thusly: I've always used the genkernel, but now am trying to make a manual one. I think the kernel is alright since all the default setting seemed reasonable and

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panic on manually built kernel

2010-11-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:00:21 -0400, dhk wrote: The reason I didn't include the exact error is that I can't capture it. I'd have to write it on paper and then reboot to the working kernel. Which is a lot less work than trying to fix the problem by guesswork. -- Neil Bothwick Velilind's

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panic on manually built kernel

2010-11-04 Thread dhk
On 11/04/2010 01:08 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:00:21 -0400, dhk wrote: The reason I didn't include the exact error is that I can't capture it. I'd have to write it on paper and then reboot to the working kernel. Which is a lot less work than trying to fix the problem

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panic on manually built kernel

2010-11-04 Thread covici
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: dhk wrote: I've always used the genkernel, but now am trying to make a manual one. I think the kernel is alright since all the default setting seemed reasonable and the build was easy enough. However, when I boot to it I get a kernel panic and it

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panic on manually built kernel

2010-11-04 Thread dhk
On 11/04/2010 02:12 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: dhk wrote: I've always used the genkernel, but now am trying to make a manual one. I think the kernel is alright since all the default setting seemed reasonable and the build was easy enough. However,

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panic on manually built kernel

2010-11-04 Thread covici
dhk dhk...@optonline.net wrote: On 11/04/2010 02:12 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: dhk wrote: I've always used the genkernel, but now am trying to make a manual one. I think the kernel is alright since all the default setting seemed reasonable

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panic on manually built kernel

2010-11-04 Thread Yohan Pereira
On Thursday 04 November 2010 11:49:07 pm dhk wrote: stupid queston but did you select the appropriate sata drivers ? i ran into a similar problem just about an hr back becuase i forgot to include those . -- - Yohan Pereira.

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panic on manually built kernel

2010-11-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 19:00 on Thursday 04 November 2010, dhk did opine thusly: On 11/04/2010 12:52 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 18:34 on Thursday 04 November 2010, dhk did opine thusly: I've always used the genkernel, but now am trying to make a

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panic on manually built kernel

2010-11-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 19:36 on Thursday 04 November 2010, dhk did opine thusly: On 11/04/2010 01:08 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:00:21 -0400, dhk wrote: The reason I didn't include the exact error is that I can't capture it. I'd have to write it on paper

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panic on manually built kernel

2010-11-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:36:25 -0400, dhk wrote: The ext2 wasn't compiled in, so I compiled it in and rebooted. I got the same error. kernel panic - not syncing : VFS: unable to mount root FS on unknown-block (2,0) It's saying unknown block, not unknown fs. I suspect you haven't compiled in

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panic on manually built kernel

2010-11-04 Thread Stroller
On 4/11/2010, at 5:36pm, dhk wrote: ... This is what I had. Second extended fs support │ │ │ │* Ext3 journalling file system support │ │ │ │[ ] Default to 'data=ordered' in ext3 │ │ │ │[*] Ext3 extended attributes │ │ │ │[*]