Re: [gentoo-user] cannot open root device

2003-06-06 Thread Chris Bare
> Look back at his fstab. He has his partitions listed as hd1, hd3 etc. > shouldn't it read hda1,hda3 etc? Yes, someone caught that earlier, but the kernel wasn't even getting that far. I'd left out something that needed to be linked in statically. I started over with /proc/config from the liveCD

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot open root device

2003-06-06 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Thursday 05 June 2003 02:56 pm, Peter Ruskin wrote: > On Thursday 05 Jun 2003 19:40, Mark Knecht wrote: > > It's a total guess as I've seen something similar to this on > > Redhat, although not with ext2 partitions. Is the 03:03 part a > > clue? Is that saying something like it's looking for /de

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot open root device

2003-06-06 Thread Chris Bare
> IIRC the /proc/config exist on the livecd > Thanks for all the suggestions, I finally got it to work. I took your advice and did: cat /proc/config > /mnt/gentoo/usr/src/linux/.config chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash source /etc/profile cd /usr/src/linux make menuconfig make dep && make clean bzIma

RE: [gentoo-user] cannot open root device

2003-06-06 Thread Mark Knecht
> > > Rats! This reminded me that I had the same problem at some point > > because of multiple controllers. I changed /dev/hda? to /dev/hde? > > and things went just fine. I think that it was loading the controller > > card before the on-board controller. Could this be a possibility? > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot open root device

2003-06-06 Thread brett holcomb
You did build IDE RAID support in? On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 14:25:31 -0400 (EDT) Chris Bare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I looked back at your original e-mail, and I'll be durned if I can see what might be wrong. Sorry I can't help. I have a feeling I've left something out of the kernel that should b

RE: [gentoo-user] cannot open root device

2003-06-06 Thread Rex Young
> >I don't think it could be in my case, I don't have any extra >controllers. I do have USB and 1394, but no devices plugged >in. I wonder >if they could cause a problem? nah. I wouldn't think that this would be a problem. Given that the bootcd loads the drive as /dev/hda would tend to negate m

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot open root device

2003-06-06 Thread Chris Bare
> Rats! This reminded me that I had the same problem at some point > because of multiple controllers. I changed /dev/hda? to /dev/hde? > and things went just fine. I think that it was loading the controller > card before the on-board controller. Could this be a possibility? > > -rex > I don'

RE: [gentoo-user] cannot open root device

2003-06-06 Thread Rex Young
>It's a total guess as I've seen something similar to this on Redhat, >although not with ext2 partitions. Is the 03:03 part a clue? >Is that saying >something like it's looking for /dev/hdd? I might have >expected it to say >00:03. > >In my case it was getting confused about my specific EIDE >co

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot open root device

2003-06-06 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Thursday 05 Jun 2003 19:40, Mark Knecht wrote: > It's a total guess as I've seen something similar to this on Redhat, > although not with ext2 partitions. Is the 03:03 part a clue? Is that > saying something like it's looking for /dev/hdd? I might have > expected it to say 00:03. Sorry Mark, 03

RE: [gentoo-user] cannot open root device

2003-06-06 Thread Mark Knecht
> I've installed gentoo successfully several times before, but this time > I'm getting the following when I try to boot the first time: > > VFS: Cannot open root device "hda3" or 03:03 > It's a total guess as I've seen something similar to this on Redhat, although not with ext2 partitions. Is the

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot open root device

2003-06-06 Thread Tom Wesley
On Thursday 05 June 2003 18:52, Chris Bare wrote: > > --Boundary-02=_dX33+ZQii2HZ2Fm > > Content-Type: text/plain; > > charset="iso-8859-1" > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Content-Description: signed data > > Content-Disposition: inline > > > > On Thursday 05 June 2003 17:44,

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot open root device

2003-06-06 Thread Martin Larsson
IIRC the /proc/config exist on the livecd On tor, 2003-06-05 at 18:29, Chris Bare wrote: > > > > diff with a working kernel? ;) > > > > The only working one I have at the moment is the liveCD. What's weird is > I've installed gentoo at least 2 other times on this exact same hardware > and never

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot open root device

2003-06-06 Thread Chris Bare
> > diff with a working kernel? ;) > The only working one I have at the moment is the liveCD. What's weird is I've installed gentoo at least 2 other times on this exact same hardware and never had this problem. Maybe I got a newer kernel source this time. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [E

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot open root device

2003-06-06 Thread Martin Larsson
diff with a working kernel? ;) On tor, 2003-06-05 at 18:25, Chris Bare wrote: > > I looked back at your original e-mail, and I'll be durned if I > > can see what might be wrong. Sorry I can't help. > > > > I have a feeling I've left something out of the kernel that should be > built in statical

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot open root device

2003-06-06 Thread Chris Bare
> I looked back at your original e-mail, and I'll be durned if I > can see what might be wrong. Sorry I can't help. > I have a feeling I've left something out of the kernel that should be built in statically, but I haven't spotted the problem yet. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PRO

RE: [gentoo-user] cannot open root device

2003-06-06 Thread Rex Young
>thanks for spotting that. I've fixed it, but I had it right in >grub. The >problem is before it even managed to get to fstab. > I looked back at your original e-mail, and I'll be durned if I can see what might be wrong. Sorry I can't help. -rex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot open root device

2003-06-06 Thread Chris Bare
> I think that if you double-check things, you will find that you > do not have /dev/hd1, /dev/hd2 nor /dev/hd3. You probably have > /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2 and /dev/hda3. Not that there is an "a" added > between the numeral and the letter "d". Hope it helps. > thanks for spotting that. I've fixe

RE: [gentoo-user] cannot open root device

2003-06-06 Thread Rex Young
> >/etc/fstab from the root I can't mount: > >/dev/hd1/boot ext2 >noauto,noatime 1 1 >/dev/hd3/ reiserfs >noatime 0 0 >/dev/hd2noneswapsw > 0 0 >/dev/cdroms/cdr

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot open root device

2003-06-06 Thread Chris Bare
> > --Boundary-02=_dX33+ZQii2HZ2Fm > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Content-Description: signed data > Content-Disposition: inline > > On Thursday 05 June 2003 17:44, Chris Bare wrote: > > > Did you have /boot mounted when you co

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot open root device

2003-06-06 Thread Tom Wesley
On Thursday 05 June 2003 17:44, Chris Bare wrote: > > Did you have /boot mounted when you copied bzImage to it? > > yes. could you post your fstab and fdisk output, also the output of mount from the livecd with it mounted? -- Tom Wesley Please encrypt personal replies if possible. pgp0.pg

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot open root device

2003-06-06 Thread brett holcomb
Hmm, for some reason it can't mount the root device. On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 12:44:11 -0400 (EDT) Chris Bare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Did you have /boot mounted when you copied bzImage to it? yes. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing lis

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot open root device

2003-06-06 Thread Chris Bare
> > Did you have /boot mounted when you copied bzImage to it? > yes. -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot open root device

2003-06-06 Thread brett holcomb
Did you have /boot mounted when you copied bzImage to it? On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 12:40:09 -0400 (EDT) Chris Bare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've installed gentoo successfully several times before, but this time I'm getting the following when I try to boot the first time: VFS: Cannot open root devi