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On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 08:24 +0000, Jean-Marc Beaune wrote: |
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> This is due to ATA/ATAPI (DEPRECATED) being disabled in newer kernels, |
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> replaced by Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers. |
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> Make sure you enabled this support properly. |
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> In my case that happened to me as well, on a remote computer, which |
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> was my mother's box... |
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> Anyway, in fstab /dev/sdXX shoud work, at least I made this change on |
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> a couple of machines and that went fine. |
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Jean-Marc, thanks. This gives me a bit of insight. |
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I've been compiling kernels for this box for some time, carrying over |
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the .config file between kernel versions and updating them. Last night |
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I built IDE functionality as a module (it was previously compiled into |
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the kernel, as per my carried-over .config files) thinking that I would |
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simply not load it at run-time. As I noted in my post, while the the |
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kernel recognized "root=/dev/sda4" as a kernel param, the boot process |
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crashed with a note that "/dev/sda4" wasn't recognized. It's entirely |
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possible that this module got auto-loaded, or that there's some other |
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anomaly in my kernel config that's throwing things off. |
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My next step is to completely rebuild the kernel, using the config built |
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into the distributed kernel source, making only the necessary mods for |
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the box's hardware needs. I'll find a time window during the next few |
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days to work on this. |
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