From gentoo-user  Sat Dec 12 15:45:39 2009
From: Erik <esigra () gmail ! com>
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:45:39 +0000
To: gentoo-user
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] While installing Gentoo: emerge gentoo-sources
Message-Id: <4B23BAA3.6060300 () gmail ! com>
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Erik skrev:
> Kyle Adams skrev:
>   
>> On 12/11/09 16:43, Dale wrote:
>>     
>>> Erik wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Now I am trying to install Gentoo on a new system but when try to emerge
>>>> gentoo-sources (as I am supposed to), it hangs at "Applying
>>>> 4400_alpha-sysctl-uac.patch". This problem is also known as bug #291389.
>>>> I see with top in another virtual terminal that rm uses 100% CPU. Is
>>>> there any way to continue the installation?
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>         
>>> Maybe try a different version of gentoo-sources?
>>> Dale
>>>
>>> :-)  :-)
>>>       
>> Vanilla-sources will solve the problem until boot time, unless you have
>> ext4 partitions.
>>     
>
> Now I have seen what happens when trying to boot a vanilla kernel with
> ext4 partitions:
> [    1.558600] VFS: Cannot open root device "803" or unknown-block(8,3)
>   

Actually that seems unrelated to vanilla-sources and ext4. I just
compiled SCSI disk support (BLK_DEV_SD) as a yes instead of module. Now
it boots. (This is a "Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller