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From: Lindsay Haisley <fmouse-gentoo@×××.com>
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] System problems
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 16:37:32
Message-Id: 1300638963.1698.75.camel@ubuntu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-desktop] System problems by Jean-Marc Beaune
1 On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 08:24 +0000, Jean-Marc Beaune wrote:
2 > This is due to ATA/ATAPI (DEPRECATED) being disabled in newer kernels,
3 > replaced by Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers.
4 >
5 > Make sure you enabled this support properly.
6 >
7 > In my case that happened to me as well, on a remote computer, which
8 > was my mother's box...
9 >
10 > Anyway, in fstab /dev/sdXX shoud work, at least I made this change on
11 > a couple of machines and that went fine.
12
13 Jean-Marc, thanks. This gives me a bit of insight.
14
15 I've been compiling kernels for this box for some time, carrying over
16 the .config file between kernel versions and updating them. Last night
17 I built IDE functionality as a module (it was previously compiled into
18 the kernel, as per my carried-over .config files) thinking that I would
19 simply not load it at run-time. As I noted in my post, while the the
20 kernel recognized "root=/dev/sda4" as a kernel param, the boot process
21 crashed with a note that "/dev/sda4" wasn't recognized. It's entirely
22 possible that this module got auto-loaded, or that there's some other
23 anomaly in my kernel config that's throwing things off.
24
25 My next step is to completely rebuild the kernel, using the config built
26 into the distributed kernel source, making only the necessary mods for
27 the box's hardware needs. I'll find a time window during the next few
28 days to work on this.
29
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Re: [gentoo-desktop] System problems Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>