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on Sunday 02/18/2007 Raymond Lewis Rebbeck(dystopianray@×××××.com) wrote |
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> On Sunday, 18 February 2007 5:41, Dan Farrell wrote: |
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> > On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 05:31:21 +1030 |
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> > |
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> > Raymond Lewis Rebbeck <dystopianray@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > > On Sunday, 18 February 2007 5:25, alain.didierjean@××××.fr wrote: |
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> > > > Just compiled kernel 2.6.19-r5, with same config as 2.6.18-r6. |
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> > > > When trying to boot it, I get a kernel panic, grub not finding |
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> > > > (hd0,0), when booting 2.6.18 doesn't cause any problem. What's new |
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> > > > in 2.6.19 that causes this? What's the solution ? Help welcome. |
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> > > > |
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> > > > -- |
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> > > > ~adj~ |
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> > > |
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> > > It's probably due to the SATA drivers being moved out of the SCSI |
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> > > section of menuconfig, which iirc, changed their CONFIG names. |
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> > > You should double check that all your required drivers have been |
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> > > configured. |
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> > I tried kernel 2.19 and the new libata PATA drivers and all seemed to |
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> > work fine, execpt I too got the same kernel panic with not |
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> > finding /dev/hd[a-z][0-9]+. I think the names of these device nodes |
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> > might have changed? I'm not sure but my theory is that if i would have |
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> > used the older ATA drivers instead, things would have been fine. |
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> > |
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> > People _Are_ running the 2.6.19 kernels successfully. |
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> The new libata PATA drivers put your hdds under /dev/sd* and your cdroms |
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> under /dev/sr* rather than /dev/hd*. So you'll have to either reconfigure |
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> your kernel to use the regular IDE drivers or fix all mention of /dev/hd* to |
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> the correct /dev/sd* device. |
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Well, if I do that will I have to have only 15 partitions on an ide |
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drive -- currently I am running on a drive with 17 partitions? Which |
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configs are the old ide drivers and are they going to be maintained? |
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Thanks. |
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