PCI post-install prob...

Franscsi · n00b Joined: 23 Jun 2003 Posts: 2 Location: MX

Hi...

I've just installed my mobile gentoo (compaq 700LA), everything went well, I installed the GRUB as boot manager... and dualing with my win2k partition... the problem came when I tried to boot gentoo...

It fully freezes right after the PCI configuration... and I really dunno how to fix this... the bottom lines on booting (before freezing) are:

ACPI: Subsystem revision 20021122
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd7ae, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
and.... freeze!!!!

I don't know what I'm doing wrong, and dunno which parameters to pass to solve this...

I hope some guidance here...
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cyrillic · Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2003 2:09 am Post subject:

What happens if you boot with : acpi=off

Franscsi · n00b Joined: 23 Jun 2003 Posts: 2 Location: MX

Thanks... that seemed to be the problem, but now I get a kernel panic alert, It seems the options I gave were incorrect... is there a way to modify my /etc/fstab config? I get the message:

EXT2-fs: ide0(3,5): couldn't mount because of unssuported optional features (4).
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05

Both boot and root partitions are ext3fs... but I dunno how to modify the files...

Hope u could bring more help on this...
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puggy · Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2003 7:11 am Post subject:

This is not trying to say your fstab is wrong, i.e. its not trying to mount a wrong filepartition. This error comes up when you've done something wrong with your kernel, or your kernel simply (Although it seems to) doesn't support your hardware. For instance I get this messages with gentoo-sources as it doesn't seem to work with my RAID controller, even though it should.

To change your fstab or do any repair work boot from the livecd, mount your drives and /proc and enter the chroot. Then your at the equivalent of "inside" your gentoo install and you can modify files, emerge stuff or whatever.

Sorry I can't be of better help.

Puggy
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