Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with new install

2010-10-16 Thread Mike Diehl
Well, I got it to boot. Now that it's up, I can see what the problem was/is. There are no disk device files in /dev. I created the appropriate nodes and things went much better. The problem was that CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 was on I just closed up the chassis and it will ship in the

[gentoo-user] Problem with new install

2010-10-15 Thread Mike Diehl
Hi all. I've never had this much trouble with a server before, but I've been pulling my hair out. The install seemed to go well, but when I rebooted it from it's own hard drive, it fails. fsck claims that it can't open /dev/sda3 or that the superblock doesn't describe a valid ext2

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with new install

2010-10-15 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 15.10.2010 19:29, schrieb Mike Diehl: Hi all. I've never had this much trouble with a server before, but I've been pulling my hair out. The install seemed to go well, but when I rebooted it from it's own hard drive, it fails. fsck claims that it can't open /dev/sda3 or that the

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with new install

2010-10-15 Thread Mike Diehl
On Friday 15 October 2010 11:40:34 am Florian Philipp wrote: *All* of the drivers could be too much. There is a generic driver which can prevent the right driver from taking over. In that case you end up with a /dev/hda node and no DMA. Try to deactivate Generic ATA support =

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with new install

2010-10-15 Thread Dan Cowsill
On 15/10/2010 10:47 AM, Mike Diehl wrote: On Friday 15 October 2010 11:40:34 am Florian Philipp wrote: Instead of your brute-force yes to all approach, newer kernels also support `make localyesconfig` which takes all modules currently used in the running kernel and compiles them into the new

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with new install

2010-10-15 Thread Per-Erik Westerberg
fre 2010-10-15 klockan 11:29 -0600 skrev Mike Diehl: Hi all. I've never had this much trouble with a server before, but I've been pulling my hair out. The install seemed to go well, but when I rebooted it from it's own hard drive, it fails. fsck claims that it can't open /dev/sda3 or

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with new install

2010-10-15 Thread Mike Diehl
On Friday 15 October 2010 11:40:34 am Florian Philipp wrote: Am 15.10.2010 19:29, schrieb Mike Diehl: Hi all. I've never had this much trouble with a server before, but I've been pulling my hair out. The install seemed to go well, but when I rebooted it from it's own hard drive,

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with new install

2010-10-15 Thread Mike Diehl
One more interesting tidbit: When it boots, I can see that VFS was able to mount ROOT on device 8:3. So, it doesn't seem to be hardware or driver related. Looks like something with the filesystem? fsck.ext2 is the only thing complaining. However, when I boot from CD, I can mount it just

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with new install

2010-10-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 19:47 on Friday 15 October 2010, Mike Diehl did opine thusly: Instead of your brute-force yes to all approach, newer kernels also support `make localyesconfig` which takes all modules currently used in the running kernel and compiles them into the new

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with new install

2010-10-15 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 15.10.2010 21:23, schrieb Mike Diehl: On Friday 15 October 2010 11:40:34 am Florian Philipp wrote: Am 15.10.2010 19:29, schrieb Mike Diehl: Hi all. I've never had this much trouble with a server before, but I've been pulling my hair out. The install seemed to go well, but when I

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with new install

2010-10-15 Thread Bill Longman
On 10/15/2010 12:23 PM, Mike Diehl wrote: On Friday 15 October 2010 11:40:34 am Florian Philipp wrote: Am 15.10.2010 19:29, schrieb Mike Diehl: Hi all. I've never had this much trouble with a server before, but I've been pulling my hair out. The install seemed to go well, but when I