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Daniel Tourde - Caelae.se
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 Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 5:20 pm Post subject: gcc 4.1, glibc 2.4, genkernel 3.3.11c, 2.6.16: no boot!!!!! |
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Hello,
I have installed from scratch a Gentoo x86 station based on 2006.0. I have used however glibc 2.4-r2, gcc 4.1, Kernel 2.6.16 (headers as well), genkernel 3.3.11c and udev 087.
The installation is based on stage1 (not on stage3 as recommended in the modern Gentoo installation manuals).
Everything went fine (no compilation problems whatsoever) until I rebooted the machine on its own for the first time.
I used genkernel to compile a classical 2.6.16, I did not change anything in the kernel configuration file. I use Grub and created a simple grub.conf file (it contains 3 lines, I am pretty sure they are right...) but when I boot, I get this infamous message:
>>Activating devfs
mount: mounting devfs failed: no such device
/init: 226: devfs: not found
>>determining root device
!!Block device /dev/sdsa6 is not a valid root device
!!the root block device is unspecififed or not detected
please specify a device to boot, or "sheel" for a sheel boot() ::
The problem is that the system is udev based... So, wtf is devfs doing in there? It cannot mount the partitions so I am VERY limited from that point...
I recompiled the kernel -> no change!
I updated udev from 087 to 089-r2 -> no change!
I played around with the grub.conf, in case I would have done anything wrong with the (hdx,y) -> no change!
I validated coldplug and hotplug at boot level (rc-update) -> no change!
So now I am stuck!
Is the combination: gentoo 2006.0 + gcc 4.1 + glibc 2.4 + genkernel 3.3.11c + kernel 2.6.16 + udev 087 + grub 0.96 doomed?
Any help is warmly welcome.
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Daniel Tourde - Caelae.se
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| Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 5:21 pm Post subject: |
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In my case, the device not seen is /dev/hda2
I have: hda1 /boot
hda2 /
hda3 swap
hda5 /usr
etc etc... with tmp, opt, home, var |
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cyrillic
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| Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 7:06 pm Post subject: Re: gcc 4.1, glibc 2.4, genkernel 3.3.11c, 2.6.16: no boot!! |
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| Daniel Tourde - Caelae.se wrote: | | The problem is that the system is udev based... So, wtf is devfs doing in there? |
It looks like Genkernel screwed up, and decided to put devfs into the initrd even though your kernel cannot support it.
What happens if you compile the kernel manually ? |
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Daniel Tourde - Caelae.se
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| Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 7:14 pm Post subject: Re: gcc 4.1, glibc 2.4, genkernel 3.3.11c, 2.6.16: no boot!! |
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| cyrillic wrote: | | Daniel Tourde - Caelae.se wrote: | | The problem is that the system is udev based... So, wtf is devfs doing in there? |
It looks like Genkernel screwed up, and decided to put devfs into the initrd even though your kernel cannot support it.
What happens if you compile the kernel manually ? |
I don't know. I haven't tried. It seems to be related to the following bug:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129887
That's all I can say at the moment. I am stuck, honestly. |
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cyrillic
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| Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 7:47 pm Post subject: |
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You wouldn't be stuck if you skipped genkernel  |
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Daniel Tourde - Caelae.se
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| Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 7:55 pm Post subject: Re: gcc 4.1, glibc 2.4, genkernel 3.3.11c, 2.6.16: no boot!! |
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| cyrillic wrote: | | Daniel Tourde - Caelae.se wrote: | | The problem is that the system is udev based... So, wtf is devfs doing in there? |
It looks like Genkernel screwed up, and decided to put devfs into the initrd even though your kernel cannot support it.
What happens if you compile the kernel manually ? |
Well, I did something even simpler: I modified grub.conf.
The problem lies when genkernel is used in the generation of initramfs, nowhere else. In the installation manual there is an example of grub.conf for non genkernel user. It does not use initramfs... |
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