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

[John covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>]

on Sunday 02/18/2007 Raymond Lewis Rebbeck(dystopianray@gmail.com) wrote
 > On Sunday, 18 February 2007 5:41, Dan Farrell wrote:
 > > On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 05:31:21 +1030
 > >
 > > Raymond Lewis Rebbeck <dystopianray@gmail.com> wrote:
 > > > On Sunday, 18 February 2007 5:25, 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.
 > > > >
 > > > > --
 > > > > ~adj~
 > > >
 > > > It's probably due to the SATA drivers being moved out of the SCSI
 > > > section of menuconfig, which iirc, changed their CONFIG names.
 > > >
 > > > You should double check that all your required drivers have been
 > > > configured.
 > >
 > > I tried kernel 2.19 and the new libata PATA drivers and all seemed to
 > > work fine, execpt I too got the same kernel panic with not
 > > finding /dev/hd[a-z][0-9]+.  I think the names of these device nodes
 > > might have changed?  I'm not sure but my theory is that if i would have
 > > used the older ATA drivers instead, things would have been fine.
 > >
 > > People _Are_ running the 2.6.19 kernels successfully.
 > 
 > The new libata PATA drivers put your hdds under /dev/sd* and your cdroms 
 > under /dev/sr* rather than /dev/hd*. So you'll have to either reconfigure 
 > your kernel to use the regular IDE drivers or fix all mention of /dev/hd* to 
 > the correct /dev/sd* device.

Well, if I do that will I have to have only 15 partitions on an ide
drive -- currently I am running on a drive with 17 partitions?  Which
configs are the old ide drivers and are they going to be maintained?

Thanks.

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