New kernel and GRUB configuration

reddae · 2011-04-06 05:00:32

I recently downloaded and installed from the AUR the maxim patch to fix the mon0 problem with aircrack-ng.

Both makepkg and pacman -U finish without any issues.

The problem comes in when I try to set my system up to use the 2.6.8 kernel which is created by the process.

When it first finished, the new kernel was created on my "/" partition. I got them moved "/boot" partition in order to get my system set up.

The current files in my "/boot" are:

grub (folder)
lost+found (folder)

9a97750b-6285-42a6-9712-877d9ef12eca (uuid of the drive)

kernel26-img
kernel26-fallback.img
vmlinuz26
System.map26

kernel26-nx.img
kernel26-nx-fallback.img
vmlinuz26-nx
System.map26-nx

My /grub/menu.lst says:

# (0) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/842288ba-e9a8-4a6e-8e60-4a54e4844dcd ro
initrd /kernel26-fallback.img

# (1) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux Fallback
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/842288ba-e9a8-4a6e-8e60-4a54e4844dcd ro
initrd /kernel26-fallback.img

Under this configuration is works fine. When I switch it to:

# (0) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26-nx root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/842288ba-e9a8-4a6e-8e60-4a54e4844dcd ro
initrd /kernel26-nx-.img

# (1) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux Fallback
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26-nx root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/842288ba-e9a8-4a6e-8e60-4a54e4844dcd ro
initrd /kernel26-nx-fallback.img

It boots to "Waiting 10 seconds for drive..." Then puts me in to the ramfs because the drive does not respond. I am sure I am doing something wrong, I just don't know what.

Last edited by reddae (2011-04-06 05:13:19)

ewaller · 2011-04-06 05:21:32

I wonder if the UUIDs are being calculated differently by vmlinuz26 and vmlinuz26-nx. What if you change the UUID node for a /dev/sdaxx node ??

Please use BBCode code tags around file contents and program output. It makes it a lot easier to read. Thanks

reddae · 2011-04-06 05:58:09

I changed the boot string to:

root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26-nx root=/dev/sda3 ro
initrd /kernel26-nx.img

Waiting 10 seconds for device /dev/sda3
ERROR: Unable to determine major/minor number of root device '/dev/sda3'
You are being dropped to a recovery shell

EDIT: I just tried with all of the drives, sda1,sda2,sda3,sda4 all with the same result.

Last edited by reddae (2011-04-06 06:03:38)

ewaller · 2011-04-06 06:12:14

Any chance your kernel is missing a required hardware driver ??
Does it contain built in or module support for the file system type of / ??

I am not experienced with that kernel, but I have built my share (Gentoo). You may need to compare the config files for the working and for the non-working kernel and see if there are relevant differences.

Signing off for the night

travmon · 2011-04-06 11:16:14

have you tried running fsck /dev/sd[x][x] from an live arch install cd/usb or another live image such as partedmagic ? then maybe booting fallback or recovery then rebuilding kernel by running mkinitcpio -p kernel26 ? those methods usually always fix those kinda of errors for me.

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#1 2011-04-06 05:00:32

New kernel and GRUB configuration

#2 2011-04-06 05:21:32

Re: New kernel and GRUB configuration

#3 2011-04-06 05:58:09

Re: New kernel and GRUB configuration

#4 2011-04-06 06:12:14

Re: New kernel and GRUB configuration

#5 2011-04-06 11:16:14

Re: New kernel and GRUB configuration

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