Lee Davis wrote: > Colleen Beamer wrote: >> This link tells nothing - it was from the first time I installed Gentoo on >> the new laptop. This time I *did* configure sata into the kernel. So >> *that* is not the issue. And I'm not *that* stupid that I would repeat a >> previous mistake. I truly thing something is screwed up in the >> kernel-sources for 6.22-gentoo-r5 cause not matter what I select in the >> Sata section of the kernel config, nothing works. >> > That matches my experience of 2.6.22-gentoo with my M1710. I ended up > rolling back to 2.6.18-gentoo-r7 out of frustration; I'm happy to > provide my .config if that helps. > I followed Lee's lead and installed the last known kernel that I had that worked - genkernel-2.6.21-r4. Now, I can boot, no problem. And I made no changes to my grub.conf file or my fstab file.
One piece of advice that I took from someone who posted in the thread (Benno, I think) was that I recreated my partitions and file systems, but prior to doing that I ran 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda' However, I still got the same error message about /dev/sda not being a valid block device when I installed genkernel-2.6.22-r5. So that's when I decided to follow Lee's lead. Before all this mess happened, I *did* have 2.6.22-r5 installed, but when I installed that, it must have used the config from 2.6.21-r4. Now, I'm on the road to being up and running again. Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
