Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't kernel-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 see my root partition?
b.n. wrote: Sigfrido V. Ortiz C. ha scritto: Why and when to UPGRADE the kernel? Basically, when you need to. I lived with 2.6.16 until two weeks ago, and before 2.6.16 I lived with 2.6.12 much longer. If you don't feel the need of a new kernel, I don't see any reason to upgrade. A famous British mountaineer, George Mallory, who made several attempts on Mt. Everest, and was eventually killed on the mountain, was once asked why he was so determined to climb the peak. His answer? Because it is there. Surely a very similar argument applies to Gentoo users and new Linux kernels! ;-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't kernel-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 see my root partition?
Bruce Munro ha scritto: A famous British mountaineer, George Mallory, who made several attempts on Mt. Everest, and was eventually killed on the mountain, was once asked why he was so determined to climb the peak. His answer? Because it is there. Surely a very similar argument applies to Gentoo users and new Linux kernels! ;-) Yeah, I know of Gentooist friends that are just so :) But remember he was killed on the mountain... m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't kernel-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 see my root partition?
b.n. wrote: Bruce Munro ha scritto: A famous British mountaineer, George Mallory, who made several attempts on Mt. Everest, and was eventually killed on the mountain, was once asked why he was so determined to climb the peak. His answer? Because it is there. Surely a very similar argument applies to Gentoo users and new Linux kernels! ;-) Yeah, I know of Gentooist friends that are just so :) But remember he was killed on the mountain... A very good point indeed! I myself have recently ended up doing a complete re-installation of my Gentoo system after getting it into a bit of mess. But then again, if you didn't enjoy installations and fixing problems you wouldn't stick with Gentoo anyway. -Bruce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't kernel-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 see my root partition?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: b.n. wrote: Bruce Munro ha scritto: A famous British mountaineer, George Mallory, who made several attempts on Mt. Everest, and was eventually killed on the mountain, was once asked why he was so determined to climb the peak. His answer? Because it is there. Surely a very similar argument applies to Gentoo users and new Linux kernels! ;-) Yeah, I know of Gentooist friends that are just so :) But remember he was killed on the mountain... A very good point indeed! I myself have recently ended up doing a complete re-installation of my Gentoo system after getting it into a bit of mess. But then again, if you didn't enjoy installations and fixing problems you wouldn't stick with Gentoo anyway. -Bruce I agree with you Bruce, but i want to keep alive to enjoy more long time to Gentoo...!! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't kernel-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 see my root partition?
On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, b.n. wrote: Bruce Munro ha scritto: A famous British mountaineer, George Mallory, who made several attempts on Mt. Everest, and was eventually killed on the mountain, was once asked why he was so determined to climb the peak. His answer? Because it is there. Surely a very similar argument applies to Gentoo users and new Linux kernels! ;-) Yeah, I know of Gentooist friends that are just so :) But remember he was killed on the mountain... If only he'd used quickpkg on himself before he left... -Daniel *This .sig left intentionally blank* -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't kernel-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 see my root partition?
Ben Kelly wrote: I ran into a similar problem when upgrading. It looked to me like the SATA device configuration variables had been changed or renamed. This caused me to lose all my SATA modules when I rebuilt. After I went in and explicitly added the new SATA drivers into the config the machine could boot again. My policy is to upgrade kernel about every 6 months or at least before the version I'm using rolls off the supported kernel list. That said, this last upgrade to 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 was a little more than normal in the new SATA config variables. Googled, but couldn't find any explanation of them. So made best guess and just lucked out. Does anyone have a link to any documentation on the new variables? I use the recommended grub setup that works with make install, so I would have the previous kernel to roll back to if necessary. For details see Installing the kernel in: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Compile_a_Kernel_Manually It's nice to have a safety net... HTH, Roy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't kernel-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 see my root partition?
On Saturday 03 February 2007 11:06 am, Michael Sullivan wrote: I upgraded my kernel to 2.6.19-gentoo-r6 this morning. I used genkernel. I followed these steps: In the interest of confusion...the .19 kernel sees all hdd's as /dev/sdx including ide. Your sda6 is most likely sdb6 or some other variant. -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't kernel-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 see my root partition?
On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 11:20 -0600, Joe Menola wrote: On Saturday 03 February 2007 11:06 am, Michael Sullivan wrote: I upgraded my kernel to 2.6.19-gentoo-r6 this morning. I used genkernel. I followed these steps: In the interest of confusion...the .19 kernel sees all hdd's as /dev/sdx including ide. Your sda6 is most likely sdb6 or some other variant. -jm But there were no /dev/sxx files in that /dev directory in the shell when I tried to boot into the new kernel. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't kernel-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 see my root partition?
Joe Menola [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the interest of confusion...the .19 kernel sees all hdd's as /dev/sdx including ide. But only if you configure it so that libata handles the ide drives. I believe that the default is to have pata handled by the IDE drivers and sata by libata -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't kernel-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 see my root partition?
Michael Sullivan wrote:
I upgraded my kernel to 2.6.19-gentoo-r6 this morning. I used
genkernel. I followed these steps:
Deleted the /usr/src/linux symlink and recreated it point
to /usr/src/2.6.19-gentoo-r5
zcat /proc/config.gz /usr/share/genkernel/x86/kernel-config-2.6
genkernel all
After it successfully built, I opened up my /boot/grub/grub.conf file in
vim and copied the entry lines for the old kernel I was using
(2.6.18-gentoo-r6 - also created with genkernel) and changed the numbers
to reflect the new kernel on the title, kernel, and initrd lines.
However when I attempt to boot up with the new kernel, it goes through
its usual device checks, and then right when it should say Booting
initramfs-{}, it says /dev/sda6 is not a suitable root
device. (or something like that) and offers me either a chance to enter
the root device, or a shell. I asked for the shell. I did ls and saw a
directory structure seemingly similar to my / on my root partition, but
when I did ls /dev I didn't see any sda devices (or an other s* devices
for that matter). What's gone wrong, and what do I do to fix it? Below
is my /boot/grub/grub.conf:
I ran into a similar problem when upgrading. It looked to me like the
SATA device configuration variables had been changed or renamed. This
caused me to lose all my SATA modules when I rebuilt. After I went in
and explicitly added the new SATA drivers into the config the machine
could boot again.
Hope that helps.
- Ben
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Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't kernel-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 see my root partition?
Joe Menola wrote: In the interest of confusion...the .19 kernel sees all hdd's as /dev/sdx including ide. That is totally untrue . :( All of my machines are using kernel 2.6.19 and they all see the hard disks as /dev/hdx apart from the one that is actually using SATA. Neil -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't kernel-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 see my root partition?
Due to this issue, Why someone have to upgrade his kernel from .18 to .19, there are IMPORTANT reazon to do that? I'm not computer professional, Gentoo is just a hobby for me, as well as my desktop and laptop computer and also Gentoo never stop to works without a clear reason as done by WINDOW$, I never saw a blue screen mean while I'm working in Gentoo, so I stopped to use WINDOWS last 2004, but the questions is: Why and when to UPGRADE the kernel? I stopped at 2.6.18-gentoo-r2, because each change means some things out of control, but each time there is somthing new to learn. Fortunatelly we have a very good documentation on line an also good friends in this kind of mailing list to solve any trouble. Any comments? Sigfrido [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joe Menola wrote: In the interest of confusion...the .19 kernel sees all hdd's as /dev/sdx including ide. That is totally untrue . :( All of my machines are using kernel 2.6.19 and they all see the hard disks as /dev/hdx apart from the one that is actually using SATA. Neil -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't kernel-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 see my root partition? [SOLVED]
On Sat, 03 Feb 2007 14:29:39 -0600 Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know why the module names were changed between 2.6.18 and 2.6.19? the developers probably do. anyway, you should make it a practice to use make oldconfig probably as it's the reason the developers feel free to do so. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't kernel-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 see my root partition?
Sigfrido V. Ortiz C. ha scritto: Why and when to UPGRADE the kernel? Basically, when you need to. I lived with 2.6.16 until two weeks ago, and before 2.6.16 I lived with 2.6.12 much longer. If you don't feel the need of a new kernel, I don't see any reason to upgrade. I usually upgrade when something needs it, when I feel it would be an improvement or, more simply, I take the occasion to upgrade when I have to recompile: but it's just me. I did upgrade to 2.6.18 just because I upgraded to gcc 4.1 and having to recompile the kernel, I also upgraded, but I could have happily lived recompiling 2.6.16. m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
