kernel problem

ok, I went ahead and upgraded to 3.5.4-r1 and because I had 'symlink' enabled in make.conf, kernel got automatically set.

Code:

~ # eselect kernel list Available kernel symlink targets: [1] linux-2.6.28-hardened-r7 [2] linux-2.6.28-hardened-r9 [3] linux-3.5.4-hardened-r1 * ~ # ls -al /usr/src/linux lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Oct 11 15:50 /usr/src/linux -> linux-3.5.4-hardened-r1

after the update it asked me to emerge gradm.
more information:
pastebin.com/3HcYZ9uv

please could you advice further? I have a back up of my .config from r9.

Quote:

Originally Posted by midway

ok, I went ahead and upgraded to 3.5.4-r1 and because I had 'symlink' enabled in make.conf, kernel got automatically set.

Code:

~ # eselect kernel list Available kernel symlink targets: [1] linux-2.6.28-hardened-r7 [2] linux-2.6.28-hardened-r9 [3] linux-3.5.4-hardened-r1 * ~ # ls -al /usr/src/linux lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Oct 11 15:50 /usr/src/linux -> linux-3.5.4-hardened-r1

after the update it asked me to emerge gradm.
more information:
pastebin.com/3HcYZ9uv

please could you advice further? I have a back up of my .config from r9.

Now you need to build/compile your kernel, modules and do not forget to update your boot loader.
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- Gentoo Linux Kernel Upgrade Guide
I do not think that you can use the .config file from 2.6 kernel to 3.5 kernel. You might be able to parse the config file by hand and see what is there that you need, but there has been way too many changes between those kernels to expect success. I promise you the kernel build will fail. Read the link I posted and see if it works for you.

on code listing 5.4
make && make modules_install

Code:

Setup is 12848 bytes (padded to 13312 bytes). System is 5123 kB CRC d228183 Kernel: arch/x86/boot/bzImage is ready (#1) Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST 7 modules WARNING: modpost: Found 13 section mismatch(es). To see full details build your kernel with: 'make CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y' CC arch/x86/kernel/test_nx.mod.o LD [M] arch/x86/kernel/test_nx.ko CC drivers/char/kcopy/kcopy.mod.o LD [M] drivers/char/kcopy/kcopy.ko CC drivers/hid/hid-logitech-dj.mod.o LD [M] drivers/hid/hid-logitech-dj.ko CC drivers/net/ethernet/amd/pcnet32.mod.o LD [M] drivers/net/ethernet/amd/pcnet32.ko CC drivers/scsi/scsi_wait_scan.mod.o LD [M] drivers/scsi/scsi_wait_scan.ko CC net/netfilter/xt_LOG.mod.o LD [M] net/netfilter/xt_LOG.ko CC net/netfilter/xt_mark.mod.o LD [M] net/netfilter/xt_mark.ko INSTALL arch/x86/kernel/test_nx.ko INSTALL drivers/char/kcopy/kcopy.ko INSTALL drivers/hid/hid-logitech-dj.ko INSTALL drivers/net/ethernet/amd/pcnet32.ko INSTALL drivers/scsi/scsi_wait_scan.ko INSTALL net/netfilter/xt_LOG.ko INSTALL net/netfilter/xt_mark.ko DEPMOD 3.5.4-hardened-r1

However, I can not mount /boot :confused:

Code:

# mount /boot mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist

I have enabled support for PIIX4 and other drivers:

Code:

~ # lspci -nn 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge [8086:7190] (rev 01) 00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge [8086:7191] (rev 01) 00:07.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA [8086:7110] (rev 08) 00:07.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE [8086:7111] (rev 01) 00:07.3 Bridge [0680]: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI [8086:7113] (rev 08) 00:0f.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: VMware SVGA II Adapter [15ad:0405] 00:10.0 SCSI storage controller [0100]: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1030 PCI-X Fusion-MPT Dual Ultra320 SCSI [1000:0030] (rev 01) 00:11.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet32 LANCE] [1022:2000] (rev 10)

Are you sure you need to mount /boot? Is /boot a separate partition? Use the fdisk command to see how your disk is partititoned.

Code:

fdisk -l

Also show us your /etc/fstab

Code:

cat /etc/fstab

strangely it doesn't show anything :confused:

Code:

# fdisk -l # # cat /etc/fstab /dev/sda1 /boot xfs defaults,noatime 1 2 /dev/sda2 swap swap sw 0 0 /dev/sda3 / xfs noatime 0 1 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto defaults,noauto 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec,rw 0 0

on make menuconfig, after searching for ATA_PIIX I see this is already selected (do i need to switch from PATA to ATA_PIIX?):

Code:

--- Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers │ │[*] Verbose ATA error reporting │ │[*] ATA ACPI Support │ │[*] SATA Port Multiplier support │ │ *** Controllers with non-SFF native interface *** │ │ <*> AHCI SATA support │ │ < > Platform AHCI SATA support │ │ < > Initio 162x SATA support │ │ < > ACard AHCI variant (ATP 8620) │ │ < > Silicon Image 3124/3132 SATA support │ │[*] ATA SFF support │ │ *** SFF controllers with custom DMA interface *** │ │ < > Pacific Digital ADMA support │ │ < > Pacific Digital SATA QStor support │ │ < > Promise SATA SX4 support (Experimental) │ │[*] ATA BMDMA support │ │ *** SATA SFF controllers with BMDMA *** │ │ <*> Intel ESB, ICH, PIIX3, PIIX4 PATA/SATA support │ │ < > Marvell SATA support │ │ < > NVIDIA SATA support │ │ < > Promise SATA TX2/TX4 support │ │ < > Silicon Image SATA support │ │ < > SiS 964/965/966/180 SATA support │ │ < > ServerWorks Frodo / Apple K2 SATA support │ │ < > ULi Electronics SATA support │ │ < > VIA SATA support │ │ < > VITESSE VSC-7174 / INTEL 31244 SATA support │ │ *** PATA SFF controllers with BMDMA *** │ │ < > ALi PATA support │ │ <*> AMD/NVidia PATA support │ │ < > ARASAN CompactFlash PATA Controller Support │ │ < > ARTOP 6210/6260 PATA support │ │ < > ATI PATA support │ │ < > ARTOP/Acard ATP867X PATA support

and I have just enabled the devtmpfs:
CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y
CONFIG_TMPFS=y AND

menuconfig search showed:

Code:

Symbol: DEVTMPFS [=y] │ Type : boolean │ Prompt: Maintain a devtmpfs filesystem to mount at /dev │ Defined at drivers/base/Kconfig:24 │ Depends on: HOTPLUG [=y] │ Location: │ -> Device Drivers │ -> Generic Driver Options │ │ │ Symbol: DEVTMPFS_MOUNT [=n] │ Type : boolean │ Prompt: Automount devtmpfs at /dev, after the kernel mounted the rootfs │ Defined at drivers/base/Kconfig:44 │ Depends on: DEVTMPFS [=y] │ Location: │ -> Device Drivers │ -> Generic Driver Options │ -> Maintain a devtmpfs filesystem to mount at /dev (DEVTMPFS [=y])

so, I have now enabled automount too:

Code:

(/sbin/hotplug) path to uevent helper │ │[*] Maintain a devtmpfs filesystem to mount at /dev │ │[*] Automount devtmpfs at /dev, after the kernel mounted the rootfs │ │ │ │[*] Select only drivers that don't need compile-time external firmware │ │ │ │[*] Prevent firmware from being built │ │ │ │ -*- Userspace firmware loading support │ │ │ │[*] Include in-kernel firmware blobs in kernel binary │ │ │ │ () External firmware blobs to build into the kernel binary │ │ │ │ [ ] Driver Core verbose debug messages │ │ │ │[*] Managed device resources verbose debug messages │ │ │ │ [ ] Contiguous Memory Allocator (EXPERIMENTAL)

more info on drivers:

Code:

# lspci -k 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 01) Subsystem: VMware Virtual Machine Chipset Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel Kernel modules: intel-agp 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 01) Kernel modules: shpchp 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 08) Subsystem: VMware Virtual Machine Chipset 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) Subsystem: VMware Virtual Machine Chipset Kernel driver in use: PIIX_IDE Kernel modules: ata_piix 00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 08) Subsystem: VMware Virtual Machine Chipset Kernel modules: i2c-piix4 00:0f.0 VGA compatible controller: VMware SVGA II Adapter Subsystem: VMware SVGA II Adapter 00:10.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1030 PCI-X Fusion-MPT Dual Ultra320 SCSI (rev 01) Kernel driver in use: mptspi Kernel modules: mptspi 00:11.0 Ethernet controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet32 LANCE] (rev 10) Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] PCnet - Fast 79C971 Kernel driver in use: pcnet32 Kernel modules: pcnet32, vmxnet

I think this is where the whole problem lies (kernel can not see the disk):

Code:

00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP]) Subsystem: VMware Virtual Machine Chipset Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 64 Region 0: [virtual] Memory at 000001f0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8] Region 1: [virtual] Memory at 000003f0 (type 3, non-prefetchable) Region 2: [virtual] Memory at 00000170 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8] Region 3: [virtual] Memory at 00000370 (type 3, non-prefetchable) Region 4: I/O ports at 1050 [size=16] Kernel driver in use: PIIX_IDE Kernel modules: ata_piix

I have the new kernel 3.5.4-r1 (hardened) installed, set and compiled but I am afraid of rebootin the system at this point. as there is nothing inside boot (like grub etc) or i can not mount sda1/2/3 (from within my current kernel 2.6.28-r9) - so i can not even update my grub bootloader. please could anyone advice a resolution? - I am out of my depth here :(

Quote:

Originally Posted by midway

strangely it doesn't show anything :confused:

Code:

# fdisk -l # # cat /etc/fstab /dev/sda1 /boot xfs defaults,noatime 1 2 /dev/sda2 swap swap sw 0 0 /dev/sda3 / xfs noatime 0 1 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto defaults,noauto 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec,rw 0 0

on make menuconfig, after searching for ATA_PIIX I see this is already selected (do i need to switch from PATA to ATA_PIIX?):

Code:

--- Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers │ │[*] Verbose ATA error reporting │ │[*] ATA ACPI Support │ │[*] SATA Port Multiplier support │ │ *** Controllers with non-SFF native interface *** │ │ <*> AHCI SATA support │ │ < > Platform AHCI SATA support │ │ < > Initio 162x SATA support │ │ < > ACard AHCI variant (ATP 8620) │ │ < > Silicon Image 3124/3132 SATA support │ │[*] ATA SFF support │ │ *** SFF controllers with custom DMA interface *** │ │ < > Pacific Digital ADMA support │ │ < > Pacific Digital SATA QStor support │ │ < > Promise SATA SX4 support (Experimental) │ │[*] ATA BMDMA support │ │ *** SATA SFF controllers with BMDMA *** │ │ <*> Intel ESB, ICH, PIIX3, PIIX4 PATA/SATA support │ │ < > Marvell SATA support │ │ < > NVIDIA SATA support │ │ < > Promise SATA TX2/TX4 support │ │ < > Silicon Image SATA support │ │ < > SiS 964/965/966/180 SATA support │ │ < > ServerWorks Frodo / Apple K2 SATA support │ │ < > ULi Electronics SATA support │ │ < > VIA SATA support │ │ < > VITESSE VSC-7174 / INTEL 31244 SATA support │ │ *** PATA SFF controllers with BMDMA *** │ │ < > ALi PATA support │ │ <*> AMD/NVidia PATA support │ │ < > ARASAN CompactFlash PATA Controller Support │ │ < > ARTOP 6210/6260 PATA support │ │ < > ATI PATA support │ │ < > ARTOP/Acard ATP867X PATA support

and I have just enabled the devtmpfs:
CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y
CONFIG_TMPFS=y AND

menuconfig search showed:

Code:

Symbol: DEVTMPFS [=y] │ Type : boolean │ Prompt: Maintain a devtmpfs filesystem to mount at /dev │ Defined at drivers/base/Kconfig:24 │ Depends on: HOTPLUG [=y] │ Location: │ -> Device Drivers │ -> Generic Driver Options │ │ │ Symbol: DEVTMPFS_MOUNT [=n] │ Type : boolean │ Prompt: Automount devtmpfs at /dev, after the kernel mounted the rootfs │ Defined at drivers/base/Kconfig:44 │ Depends on: DEVTMPFS [=y] │ Location: │ -> Device Drivers │ -> Generic Driver Options │ -> Maintain a devtmpfs filesystem to mount at /dev (DEVTMPFS [=y])

so, I have now enabled automount too:

Code:

(/sbin/hotplug) path to uevent helper │ │[*] Maintain a devtmpfs filesystem to mount at /dev │ │[*] Automount devtmpfs at /dev, after the kernel mounted the rootfs │ │ │ │[*] Select only drivers that don't need compile-time external firmware │ │ │ │[*] Prevent firmware from being built │ │ │ │ -*- Userspace firmware loading support │ │ │ │[*] Include in-kernel firmware blobs in kernel binary │ │ │ │ () External firmware blobs to build into the kernel binary │ │ │ │ [ ] Driver Core verbose debug messages │ │ │ │[*] Managed device resources verbose debug messages │ │ │ │ [ ] Contiguous Memory Allocator (EXPERIMENTAL)

more info on drivers:

Code:

# lspci -k 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 01) Subsystem: VMware Virtual Machine Chipset Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel Kernel modules: intel-agp 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 01) Kernel modules: shpchp 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 08) Subsystem: VMware Virtual Machine Chipset 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) Subsystem: VMware Virtual Machine Chipset Kernel driver in use: PIIX_IDE Kernel modules: ata_piix 00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 08) Subsystem: VMware Virtual Machine Chipset Kernel modules: i2c-piix4 00:0f.0 VGA compatible controller: VMware SVGA II Adapter Subsystem: VMware SVGA II Adapter 00:10.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1030 PCI-X Fusion-MPT Dual Ultra320 SCSI (rev 01) Kernel driver in use: mptspi Kernel modules: mptspi 00:11.0 Ethernet controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet32 LANCE] (rev 10) Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] PCnet - Fast 79C971 Kernel driver in use: pcnet32 Kernel modules: pcnet32, vmxnet

I think this is where the whole problem lies (kernel can not see the disk):

Code:

00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP]) Subsystem: VMware Virtual Machine Chipset Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 64 Region 0: [virtual] Memory at 000001f0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8] Region 1: [virtual] Memory at 000003f0 (type 3, non-prefetchable) Region 2: [virtual] Memory at 00000170 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8] Region 3: [virtual] Memory at 00000370 (type 3, non-prefetchable) Region 4: I/O ports at 1050 [size=16] Kernel driver in use: PIIX_IDE Kernel modules: ata_piix

I have the new kernel 3.5.4-r1 (hardened) installed, set and compiled but I am afraid of rebootin the system at this point. as there is nothing inside boot (like grub etc) or i can not mount sda1/2/3 (from within my current kernel 2.6.28-r9) - so i can not even update my grub bootloader. please could anyone advice a resolution? - I am out of my depth here :(

This is just a guess here but what file system is on that disk? It looks like xfs? Is xfs compiled into your kernel? What about the new one you just compiled?
How did you get the machine to boot without a boot loader?

kernel problem - help