Gentoo: Kernel problems remain.

[Net Llama!]

On 01/02/2005 07:07 PM, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
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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:
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> |> 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.
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> Ya got me there.  The /linuxrc is on the initrd included with Gentoo...

urmmm.  i know nothing about gentoo.  Was a new initrd created with this 
new kernel?  BTW, which kernel version is this?

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> |> 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)
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> |
> | 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).

Where is support for your filesystem(s)?


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