Re: [gentoo-user] Dell PowerEdge 750 problem
On Thursday 10 April 2008, Amar Cosic wrote: > Actually hell.. Dont know what to do. I am tryng to setup Gentoo on > this server all the day and whatever I try there is no luck. I used > genkernel andd Lilo and whenever I try to boot from HD I got: > > Block device /dev/sda3 is not valid root device... > Could not find the root block device in. You have not compiled all the needed drivers into the kernel. You'll need drivers for your chipset, the scsi stuff and libata. Try google, this has been asked and answered hundreds of times this year alone. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Dell PowerEdge 750 problem
Alan I tried everything, tor on all scsi stuff,almost all ata/sata stuff, but still no luck :/ .Do you know exactly where to look for libata in kernel menu ? Thanks On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 10 April 2008, Amar Cosic wrote: > > Actually hell.. Dont know what to do. I am tryng to setup Gentoo on > > this server all the day and whatever I try there is no luck. I used > > genkernel andd Lilo and whenever I try to boot from HD I got: > > > > Block device /dev/sda3 is not valid root device... > > Could not find the root block device in. > > You have not compiled all the needed drivers into the kernel. You'll > need drivers for your chipset, the scsi stuff and libata. > > Try google, this has been asked and answered hundreds of times this year > alone. > > > -- > Alan McKinnon > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > -- Amar Ćosić [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] +38761240095 http://www.amar.co.ba
Re: [gentoo-user] Dell PowerEdge 750 problem
On Thursday 10 April 2008, Amar Cosic wrote: > Alan > > I tried everything, tor on all scsi stuff,almost all ata/sata stuff, > but still no luck :/ .Do you know exactly where to look for libata in > kernel menu ? What disk hardware do you have? -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Dell PowerEdge 750 problem
> > > What disk hardware do you have? > > > -- > Alan McKinnon > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > http://pastebin.ca/979686 http://pastebin.ca/979691 DOnt know actualy how to get full disk info. Hope this can help Thanks -- Amar Ćosić [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] +38761240095 http://www.amar.co.ba
Re: [gentoo-user] Dell PowerEdge 750 problem
On 10 Apr 2008, at 15:46, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 10 April 2008, Amar Cosic wrote: ... whenever I try to boot from HD I got: Block device /dev/sda3 is not valid root device... Could not find the root block device in. You have not compiled all the needed drivers into the kernel. You'll need drivers for your chipset, the scsi stuff and libata. And for the filesystem of the root fs. Stroller. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Dell PowerEdge 750 problem
This is hell! I have all SATA stuff, all SCSI stuff ,almost all ATA stuf, all Intel stuff, all Linux FS stuff and still same errorr for 24 hours :(( On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 7:43 AM, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10 Apr 2008, at 15:46, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > On Thursday 10 April 2008, Amar Cosic wrote: > > > > > ... whenever I try to boot from HD I got: > > > > > > Block device /dev/sda3 is not valid root device... > > > Could not find the root block device in. > > > > > > > You have not compiled all the needed drivers into the kernel. You'll > > need drivers for your chipset, the scsi stuff and libata. > > > > And for the filesystem of the root fs. > > Stroller. > > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > -- Amar Ćosić [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] +38761240095 http://www.amar.co.ba
Re: [gentoo-user] Dell PowerEdge 750 problem
On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 09:07 +0200, Amar Cosic wrote: > This is hell! I have all SATA stuff, all SCSI stuff ,almost all ATA > stuf, all Intel stuff, all Linux FS stuff and still same errorr for 24 > hours :(( with my Poweredge 2900, the live cd shows a different device to the kernel, eg livecd shows my disks as sda, but the kernel shows the as hda, or vice versa. You might want to try all (h|s)da3 combinations... HTH, -- Iain Buchanan FIVE DAYS IS NOT TOO LONG TO WAIT FOR A GUN Bart Simpson on chalkboard in episode 1F20 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Dell PowerEdge 750 problem
Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday 10 April 2008 15:04:56 Amar Cosic wrote: > > >> Block device /dev/sda3 is not valid root device... >> Could not find the root block device in. >> > > Is AHCI set up correctly in your BIOS? Try toggling it and see if that > helps. > > On these lines, what CPU does this thing use? AFAIK Lilo has some issues with newer (specifically AMD64 and 64-bit systems) hardware. I'm aware that this server is equipped with an Intel CPU, but could it be that Lilo simply doesn't support your hardware? Unfortunately, it is proving harder than I expected to find a list of Lilo supported hardware. -Hal -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Dell PowerEdge 750 problem
On Thursday 10 April 2008 15:04:56 Amar Cosic wrote: > Block device /dev/sda3 is not valid root device... > Could not find the root block device in. Is AHCI set up correctly in your BIOS? Try toggling it and see if that helps. -- Rgds Peter -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Dell PowerEdge 750 problem
Well I just make a "progres" , I got kernel panic :). Then I could see available devices listed by kernel and it says drives are hdc1-3 :/. On live cd I see sda1-3. Now Lilo returns erorrs when trying to install it becouse on Live Cd there is no hdc. Any idea how to solve this and install Lilo to look at root=/dev/hdc3 ? Thanks On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Hal Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On these lines, what CPU does this thing use? AFAIK Lilo has some issues > with newer (specifically AMD64 and 64-bit systems) hardware. I'm aware > that this server is equipped with an Intel CPU, but could it be that > Lilo simply doesn't support your hardware? > > Unfortunately, it is proving harder than I expected to find a list of > Lilo supported hardware. > > -Hal > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > -- Amar Ćosić [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] +38761240095 http://www.amar.co.ba
Re: [gentoo-user] Dell PowerEdge 750 problem
Done! Switched back to genkernel but now with hdc3 as root and it booted Ok. Thank God ,and offcourse you guys for trying to help :) Amar 2008/4/11 Amar Cosic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Well I just make a "progres" , I got kernel panic :). Then I could see > available devices listed by kernel and it says drives are hdc1-3 :/. On live > cd I see sda1-3. Now Lilo returns erorrs when trying to install it becouse > on Live Cd there is no hdc. Any idea how to solve this and install Lilo to > look at root=/dev/hdc3 ? > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > +38761240095 > http://www.amar.co.ba > -- Amar Ćosić [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] +38761240095 http://www.amar.co.ba
Re: [gentoo-user] Dell PowerEdge 750 problem
Am Freitag, den 11.04.2008, 13:13 +0200 schrieb ext Amar Cosic: > Well I just make a "progres" , I got kernel panic :). Then I could see > available devices listed by kernel and it says drives are hdc1-3 :/. > On live cd I see sda1-3. Now Lilo returns erorrs when trying to > install it becouse on Live Cd there is no hdc. Any idea how to solve > this and install Lilo to look at root=/dev/hdc3 ? When the kernel says your disk is hd*, then it is a PATA disk. When it says it's sd*, it could be pretty much everything: PATA (with new libata driver), SATA, SCSI, USB,... So I would guess that the LiveCD uses the new libata, while you're using the old driver. Make sure you compile in the needed PATA drivers for your chipset (maybe CONFIG_SATA_AHCI works). What does lspci report? Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanheimerstraße 68 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40468 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: www.keyserver.net signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil
Re: [gentoo-user] Dell PowerEdge 750 problem
Am Freitag, den 11.04.2008, 17:12 +0930 schrieb ext Iain Buchanan: > On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 09:07 +0200, Amar Cosic wrote: > > This is hell! I have all SATA stuff, all SCSI stuff ,almost all ATA > > stuf, all Intel stuff, all Linux FS stuff and still same errorr for 24 > > hours :(( > > with my Poweredge 2900, the live cd shows a different device to the > kernel, eg livecd shows my disks as sda, but the kernel shows the as > hda, or vice versa. You might want to try all (h|s)da3 combinations... Because the LiveCD uses the new driver for PATA disks, which is makes them look like SCSI disks, as is true for SATA. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanheimerstraße 68 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40468 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: www.keyserver.net signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil
