Found the latest autobuild to install the stage3, built the system using the autobuild and built the same kernel on the laptop. I then upgraded to the latest kernel, built it with genkernel, and rebooted. during reboot process i noticed "cannot mount /sys" then loaded all the sata modules and then said "cannot mount /root" rebuilt the kernel to make sure that it wasn't a compile issue, and sure enough on reboot it gave me the "cannot mount /root" I made sure that the nvidia sata drivers were M in the kernel. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge gentoo-sources-2.6.30-r5 2. genkernel --mountboot --bootloader=grub all 3. reboot Actual Results: 2 error messages "cannot mount /sys" and "cannot mount /root" checked in /dev/ from a sh shell and dev was sparcely populated but with no sd*N or hd*N. Expected Results: kernel should boot same as previous -r4 kernel output of lspci -vnn 00:09.0 IDE interface [0101]: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] SATA Controller (non-AHCI mode) [10de:0ad0] (rev a2) (prog-if 85 [Master SecO PriO]) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:360a] Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 25 I/O ports at 30f0 [size=8] I/O ports at 30e4 [size=4] I/O ports at 30e8 [size=8] I/O ports at 30e0 [size=4] I/O ports at 30d0 [size=16] Memory at c0004000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [8c] SATA HBA <?> Capabilities: [b0] MSI: Mask- 64bit+ Count=1/8 Enable+ Capabilities: [ec] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping Enable+ Fixed+ Kernel driver in use: ahci Kernel modules: ahci
- shoudn't you have done <emerge -symlink gentoo-sources-2.6.30-r5> so genkernel will work on that new kernel? - if your root is on the sata drive AND making sure the sata drivers are M = invalid if you need more help ask in forum, users can help.
you can try to compile the nvidia sata drivers in the kernel follow: <*> NVIDIA SATA support not as M
(In reply to comment #2) > you can try to compile the nvidia sata drivers in the kernel follow: > <*> NVIDIA SATA support > not as M > <*> NVIDIA SATA support <*> AHCI?
Please use the support channels mentioned in [1]. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/support.xml
