--- Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/15/06, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Kernel panic! That's what happens. > > Why? Is it because it couldn't find your root > device? Did it detect > your hard drives correctly on boot? Or was it > because it found your > root, but failed to mount it? Or is it something > completely unrelated > to mounting root? Typical panic, no warning, then 'can't find root device please append correct "root=" option.' Before, when this happened it was because I had not compiled into the kernel the right fs drivers. Not this time. Well, well, well. Just booted the CD and noticed when I mount my root part. /dev/sda7 on /mnt/gentoo, it's already got a boot dir there which is totally different from the separate /boot that gets mounted from fstab, /dev/sda2. Here's the "boot" dir that get mounted along with /dev/sda7 livecd root # ls -l /mnt/gentoo/boot total 1197 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Dec 20 11:12 boot -> . drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 144 May 6 14:22 kern-conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1220856 May 9 00:48 vmlinuz here's the "boot" dir that is referenced in fstab. This is the one that got transformed by following the recent post from forgot-his-name who recommended a thorough house-cleaning. livecd root # ls -l /mnt/gentoo/mnt/ total 2175 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 May 14 21:00 System.map -> System.map-2.6.16-gentoo-r3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 689946 May 14 21:00 System.map-2.6.16-gentoo-r3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Dec 20 11:22 boot -> . lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 May 14 21:00 config -> config-2.6.16-gentoo-r3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30503 May 14 21:00 config-2.6.16-gentoo-r3 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 May 14 19:32 grub drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Dec 20 10:38 lost+found drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 May 14 19:01 old-kern-conf drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 May 14 19:32 safe lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 May 14 21:00 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.6.16-gentoo-r3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1478499 May 14 21:00 vmlinuz-2.6.16-gentoo-r3 livecd root # This has gotta be the problem. Or most of it. I've been going along all this time separately mounting a /boot partition, formatted ext2 and a root partitiion, formatted reiserfs which already has a "boot" dir attached. Is that the one that actually boots? Is it even a problem? How did it get there? Better yet, how do I explain this to the bug folks? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
