Gentoo: Kernel problems remain.

[Matthew Carpenter]

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Net Llama! wrote:
| On 01/02/2005 05:16 PM, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
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|> 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.)
|
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| 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.

Ya got me there.  The /linuxrc is on the initrd included with Gentoo...

|
|>
|> 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.
|
It's compiled into the kernel (at least I believe I got the right one,
it's the only Intel controller).

|>
|> Any pointers?
|
|
| BTW, you know that your sig block is nearly as long as your email?
Not anymore :)
|
|

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