Matthias Fechner writes: > I switched now to a new mainboard and it seems that the drive numbering > changed or my kernel does not detect any hard disks... > If I try to boot my gentoo the kernel panic because it cannot find the > root partition. > > After the panic I cannot scroll up to check what drives are detected and > which numbering is used. What must I do to be able to scroll up to see > what is logged to the screen? > (is there maybe a special key available, the shift+page-up and scroll is > not working)
I don't think that's possible. But maybe adding a 'vga=ask' to the boot parameters gives you enough lines without need to scroll? Wonko