development-sources 2.6.0-test9 configuration

suhlhorn

Having trouble building a 2.6.0-test9 kernel from development-sources. When I run 'make menuconfig' , many ciritical options are not available. In the dialog several options including 'Input device drivers' have a '----' in front of them, rather than '[ ]' or '< >', i.e.- I can't select them to compile in the kernel. What gives???

I'm trying to use a 2.6 kernel because I need the SATA support, but maybe I should just use ac-sources. Any thoughts??

-stephen

cyrillic · Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2003 4:04 pm Post subject:

The '---' means they are required and cannot be deselected.

suhlhorn · Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2003 5:49 pm Post subject: '----'

Ahh, thanks.

That's strange though. I haven't been able to build a bootable kernel. Each time I get error messages with 'kernel panic: unable to mount root fs.' My root is reiserfs and I included reiserfs support in the kernel. I can't figure out why the kernel won't build. Some other details can be found in this post:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=98531&highlight=

Any ideas?
TIA
-stephen

kevmille · Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2003 8:07 pm Post subject:

I had the same problem last week when I compiled the 2.6 test kernel. Make sure that reiserfs is set at "Y" not as modules.

Also, CONFIG_DEVFS_FS needs to be set as "Y" under pseudo filesystems.

I got this help from the Gentoo User mailing list. Your kernel should hopefully boot now.
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cyrillic · Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2003 11:16 pm Post subject:

All the kernel options for your root device need to be compiled in as well (not modules).

suhlhorn · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 1:31 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the suggestions; still getting kernel panic, but now I have some different boot messages:

jaska · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 1:50 pm Post subject:

Did you make sure to put Mount DEVFS at boot right under it? I forgot to do that once, really pissed me off because I did not know what the problem was :/

gen2newB · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 2:11 pm Post subject:

I have the same problem with the kernel not able to mount fs but with ext3. Would the same apply here, that i didn't load DEVFS in the kernel?

suhlhorn · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 9:09 pm Post subject:

Jaska-

I did put mount DEVFS in the config. Any other ideas?

I may go ahead and try to build ac-sources (2.4.22). I think there is good SATA support in there.

-stephen

suhlhorn · Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 10:01 pm Post subject:

Have made much progress. The problem was in grub.conf; I had "root=/dev/hda3" on the kernel line, but it seems that the drive gets renamed to sda3 after the SATA driver is loaded. Now I can boot up to init, but then I get:

theyneverknew2 · n00b Joined: 06 Nov 2003 Posts: 23

sysfs is a new thing in the 2.6.x kernels not sure exactly what its for but just do a mkdir /sys as root and you should get rid of that error. Im not sure about the fsck error though.

cyrillic · Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 11:38 pm Post subject:

Fixing /etc/fstab (from hda3 to sda3) should take care of the fsck error message.