From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Q1Udi-0006iM-7o for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 02:14:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D7E261C026; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 02:13:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F80F1C026 for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 02:13:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gentoo.org (174-25-229-142.rstr.qwest.net [174.25.229.142]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: dberkholz) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 94BC41B4026 for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 02:13:13 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 21:13:10 -0500 From: Donnie Berkholz To: gentoo-desktop@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] System problems Message-ID: <20110321021310.GA6358@comet> References: <1300596366.8325.30.camel@vishnu.fmp.com> <1300638963.1698.75.camel@ubuntu> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-desktop@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-desktop@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="VS++wcV0S1rZb1Fb" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1300638963.1698.75.camel@ubuntu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 33b8e7f7e1cd52cddb8078732a7d1194 --VS++wcV0S1rZb1Fb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 11:36 Sun 20 Mar , Lindsay Haisley wrote: > On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 08:24 +0000, Jean-Marc Beaune wrote: > > This is due to ATA/ATAPI (DEPRECATED) being disabled in newer kernels, > > replaced by Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers.=20 > >=20 > > Make sure you enabled this support properly.=20 > >=20 > > In my case that happened to me as well, on a remote computer, which > > was my mother's box...=20 > >=20 > > Anyway, in fstab /dev/sdXX shoud work, at least I made this change on > > a couple of machines and that went fine.=20 >=20 > Jean-Marc, thanks. This gives me a bit of insight. >=20 > I've been compiling kernels for this box for some time, carrying over > the .config file between kernel versions and updating them. Last night > I built IDE functionality as a module (it was previously compiled into > the kernel, as per my carried-over .config files) thinking that I would > simply not load it at run-time. As I noted in my post, while the the > kernel recognized "root=3D/dev/sda4" as a kernel param, the boot process > crashed with a note that "/dev/sda4" wasn't recognized. It's entirely > possible that this module got auto-loaded, or that there's some other > anomaly in my kernel config that's throwing things off. I also suspect What Jean-Marc said is the problem. I'd recommend=20 completely disabling everything in the old ATA section to ensure it=20 doesn't attempt to control any devices, while building the PATA driver=20 into the kernel and using root=3D/dev/sdXN in the grub parameters. The module approach should also work, but I always get a little=20 suspicious that it might build something else into the kernel=20 unnecessarily that causes problems. > My next step is to completely rebuild the kernel, using the config built > into the distributed kernel source, making only the necessary mods for > the box's hardware needs. I'll find a time window during the next few > days to work on this. It might be a worthwhile step to boot from a LiveCD and run `lspci -k`=20 to identify the kernel modules. If the pciutils version on the CD is too=20 old, `pcimodules` might work instead. --=20 Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Desktop project lead Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com --VS++wcV0S1rZb1Fb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk2GtDYACgkQXVaO67S1rtv0pQCgnPIDG9Xuave1IRCcmSrDCh2O g18AoIdO+jU9JIpCY//8H0SMLlGHZrUd =8yBC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --VS++wcV0S1rZb1Fb--