On Thursday 26 April 2007 17:05, Iván Pérez Domínguez wrote: > Looks like I've come with a different situation now: > > I installed Ubuntu in a different partition, it works fine. > I took it's kernel's config and tried to recompile gentoo's with it. > > Things are a little better now, but looks like it cannot find /dev/hda2 > (my root partition) nor /dev/sda2. Since no root can be found, it cannot > boot, and remains asking for the root password. If I log in, I cannot > access my files in any way. I don't know why. > > On the other hand, I also tried to boot Gentoo using Ubuntu's kernel by > setting root=/dev/sda2 (Gentoo's root partition) instead of > root=/dev/sda3 (Ubuntu's). It goes perfectly (it even mounts the root > partition), but stops after trying to remount proc (it cannot be mounted > because it has already been mounted) since it's considered a critical task. > > Any ideas? > > Shall I send the new kernel config as well? > > btw, is there any web site with a huge database with config files or > parts of them for different hardware, distributions (if applicable), and > kernels? (I already did my homework trying to find it) If not, I think > that would be a great idea. > > Iván Pérez Domínguez wrote: > > Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:07:38 +0200 > >> > >> Iván Pérez Domínguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> I'm having another problem, this time it's a kernel related problem. > >>> I'm currently using kernel 2.6.13, and most things work fine. However, > >>> when I try to update to a newer kernel (say 2.6.17 or 2.6.20), my > >>> laptop hangs after detecting the hard disk. If I don't use initrd, it > >>> stops when udev is loaded. > >> > >> What's the last (few lines of) message on screen? > >> > >> Did you configure your kernel to use the new libata stuff instead of > >> traditional IDE drivers? > > > > I don't know. That might be the problem. > > > > The old kernel config (2.6.13) is attached. I tried to change it but > > couldn't find any good combination. > > > >> -hwh > > > > Cheers, > > Ivan.
Can you provide the LSPCI output and the .config for your kernel? -- Guillermo A. Amaral, CSE # Free & Open Source Advocate & nick: guillermoamaral @ blog: http://blog.guillermoamaral.com/ @ site: http://www.guillermoamaral.com/ $ irc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] % gpg: http://downloads.guillermoamaral.com/public.asc
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