On Sonntag 14 Dezember 2008, David Relson wrote: > I'm attempting to upgrade my kernel from 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 to > 2.6.27-gentoo-r5 and have run into a snag. > > With the 2.6.25 kernel, the boot proces displays > > ...[stuff]... > Loading modules > ... libata ... > ... scsi_wait_scan ... > ... ahci ... > ... sg ... > ... ehci-hcd ... > ... usb-storage ... > ... uhci-hcd ... > ... ohci-hcd ... > Activating mdev > > With the 2.6.27 kernel, after displaying "Loading modules" and its > related messages, the "Activating mdev" message never appears and the > boot process is stopped. > > Anybody know what's wrong? > > FWIW, the mobo is an ASUS M2A-VM HDMI with an AMD64 X2 5000+ CPU and > 8GB ram. The 2.6.25 kernel is new as I've just upgraded from an IDE HD > to SATA. The 2.6.27 configuration was generated from the 2.6.25 > configuration using "make oldconfig".
so you are missing the right drivers and you have the wrong entries in /etc/fstab? Because sata = sdX. ide = hdX. oh - and not using an initrd and having everything needed to boot in the kernel takes away a lot of potential problems.
