I finally found a keyboard I can use when the boots fails to the
initramfs: prompt. ps2 plug on it.
>From the messages it leaves on screen, it is NOT finding the drive plugged
into the mobo SATA1 connector when I try to boot to a 3.13.1-2-3 kernel.
So just to verify I am looking in the right place in the /sys directory, I
believe I was in drivers/pci/sata_nv when I took the pix now up on my web
page.
This is an ASUS M2N SLI Deluxe mobo, 8 Gigs of ram, phenom 9550 running
slow at 2.1 Ghz. This needs the sata_nv module to work with this hardware.
There are 4 drives in this box, and they are all working just fine when
booted to 3.12.9, but that pix I just posted to my web page in the link
below, in the Genes-os9-stf/LCNC link looks like there are only 3, and the
first one has been enumerated to pci 5:0. Then 5:1 and 5:2 if I am reading
that right. But that same location in the 3.12.9 boot also only shows 3
"devices" so obviously I don't know what I am doing. Again...
So, when all I have is the initramfs: prompt, where in the /sys tree can I
verify that all 4 drives are present and awake?
Thanks.
Cheers, Gene
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On 02/20/2014 08:13 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> I finally found a keyboard I can use when the boots fails to the
> initramfs: prompt. ps2 plug on it.
>
> From the messages it leaves on screen, it is NOT finding the drive plugged
> into the mobo SATA1 connector when I try to boot to a 3.13.1-2-3 kernel.
If the drive is just slow to spin up, you could try another kernel command line
option:
rootdelay=30
or some other number of seconds to delay before attempting to mount the root fs.
> So just to verify I am looking in the right place in the /sys directory, I
> believe I was in drivers/pci/sata_nv when I took the pix now up on my web
> page.
>
> This is an ASUS M2N SLI Deluxe mobo, 8 Gigs of ram, phenom 9550 running
> slow at 2.1 Ghz. This needs the sata_nv module to work with this hardware.
>
> There are 4 drives in this box, and they are all working just fine when
> booted to 3.12.9, but that pix I just posted to my web page in the link
> below, in the Genes-os9-stf/LCNC link looks like there are only 3, and the
> first one has been enumerated to pci 5:0. Then 5:1 and 5:2 if I am reading
> that right. But that same location in the 3.12.9 boot also only shows 3
> "devices" so obviously I don't know what I am doing. Again...
on a working good boot, what are the four drives listed as?
> So, when all I have is the initramfs: prompt, where in the /sys tree can I
> verify that all 4 drives are present and awake?
I see my single drive listed in /sys/block and /sys/dev/block.
Have you already tried something like taking the working 3.12.9 .config file and
just modifying it a few bits at a time until it either fails or you get what you
want?
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~Randy