Re: [gentoo-user] What about kernel 2.6.19 ? (Solved)

[alain.didierjean@free.fr]

Selon Peter Lewis <prlewis@letterboxes.org>:

> Hi Alain,
>
> On Saturday 17 February 2007 18:55, alain.didierjean@free.fr wrote:
> > Just compiled kernel 2.6.19-r5, with same config as 2.6.18-r6.
> > When trying to boot it, I get a kernel panic, grub not finding (hd0,0),
> > when booting 2.6.18 doesn't cause any problem. What's new in 2.6.19 that
> > causes this? What's the solution ? Help welcome.
>
> I had exactly the same problem.
>
> When I upgraded from 2.6.18 to 2.6.19, for some reason "make oldconfig"
> didn't
> work (maybe my misunderstanding of it).
>
> This meant that though I thought that the old settings were copied across, in
> fact they weren't. I found the culprit of this to be that the default/generic
> IDE controller wasn't enabled in the kernel. Try going through your kernel
> config checking that your IDE/SATA controller is being built.

That does it: one has to enable SATA after make oldconfig, as SATA / PATA
options are no more included in SCSI option and thus not re-enabled by
oldconfig.
Thanks,

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