Kernel not loading - Kernel Panic in Grub - 2.6.23-gentoo-r6
Have already posted this on gentoo forums. My apologies to those who are reading both the forums.
Trying to compile gentoo-2.6.23-r6 and get this nice error: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) Also something about /dev/sda5 not being found. The relevant part of my grub.conf is this: title=Gentoo Linux Kernel 2.6 root (hd0,4) kernel /boot/gentoo-sources root=/dev/sda5 I know the problem is related with SCSI drivers that have to be there in the kernel. The SCSI drivers that I have built in are in accordance with this post: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...roblem-593161/ and are thus: Code:
Device Drivers ---> As for the SCSI low level disk support I have tried booting with it and also without it, and nothing seems to work. However, I have no idea what options to select in SCSI low level support. The laptop that I possess is a Dell Latitude D520 and the hard drive is a HITACHI HTS541060G9SA00 . (That is what windows device manager tells me. :P) Addition, the same device manager also shows that I have an IDE/ATAPI controller by the name of Intel(R) 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7-M Family) Serial ATA Storage Controller - 27C4. Do I have to enable ATA support for this. As far as I know the upper configuration that I have posted seems to work, or at least it did so, on my earlier gentoo installation. What gave me the urge to reinstall gentoo - I have no idea about. However, that apart if someone could please tell me what do I need to build in the kernel, then I would be most grateful. Rahul |
Hi,
May I suggest that you use genkernel, at least to get gentoo up and running and then compile your own kernel (with the genkernel one to fall back to, of course). Now I would need some info : is your drive SCSI, SATA or IDE? The name of the controlers would help. The best would actually be to post your lspci output here.... Serafean |
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p...1.html#4570091, found the solution here. Sorry for the little info that I provided!
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