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On 11:36 Sun 20 Mar , Lindsay Haisley wrote: |
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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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> > |
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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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I also suspect What Jean-Marc said is the problem. I'd recommend |
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completely disabling everything in the old ATA section to ensure it |
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doesn't attempt to control any devices, while building the PATA driver |
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into the kernel and using root=/dev/sdXN in the grub parameters. |
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The module approach should also work, but I always get a little |
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suspicious that it might build something else into the kernel |
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unnecessarily that causes problems. |
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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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It might be a worthwhile step to boot from a LiveCD and run `lspci -k` |
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to identify the kernel modules. If the pciutils version on the CD is too |
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old, `pcimodules` might work instead. |
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-- |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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Donnie Berkholz |
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Desktop project lead |
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Gentoo Linux |
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Blog: http://dberkholz.com |
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