Gentoo: Kernel problems remain.

[Net Llama!]

On 01/02/2005 05:16 PM, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> Alrighty sports-fans.  The kernel issues continue.  I am a little
> confused at this moment.  Perhaps I do not know my new laptop's hardware
> ~ as well as I thought.  There are two main mental-looptyloops I'm having:
> 
> The Genkernel image has the following appended to the kernel line:
>     root=/dev/ram0 real_root=/dev/hdc7 init=/linuxrc
> 
> My kernel, of course, has no such nonsense, but rather:
>     root=/dev/hdc7
> but of course adding this nonsense doesn't help.  Could somebody please
> explain what I'm witnessing here, and is it a Gentoo-patch or some
> alternative way of booting which I am not aware of? (not that it
> necessarily makes a difference, but I had run genkernel on this and then
> reconfigured and compiled without cleaning anything up.)

Is that in grub.conf ?  This looks like a funky initrd or something 
along those lines.  See /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt for 
block(1,0).  Although this still looks like a getnoo-ism to me, since 
i've never seen initrd's handled this way before.

> 
> The boot issue seems to boot things mostly up, but after loading the md
> driver, I get:
> VFS: Cannot open root device "hdc7" or unkown-block(22,7)
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
> unknown-block(22,7)

Did you provide support in the initrd, or kernel itself for whatever 
controller is handling hdc ?  This would normally be basic IDE support 
unless you've got an add-in card of some sort instead of an IDE 
controller on the mobo.

> 
> Any pointers?

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