From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HIVeB-0000O5-GJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 17 Feb 2007 19:55:03 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l1HJrl3A018005; Sat, 17 Feb 2007 19:53:47 GMT Received: from ccs.covici.com (ccs.covici.com [67.62.15.196]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l1HJnbER013373 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2007 19:49:38 GMT Received: from ccs.covici.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ccs.covici.com (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id l1HJnVBO001445 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2007 14:49:35 -0500 Received: (from covici@localhost) by ccs.covici.com (8.13.7/8.13.7/Submit) id l1HJnTdw001426; Sat, 17 Feb 2007 14:49:29 -0500 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17879.23625.634747.202001@ccs.covici.com> Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 14:49:29 -0500 From: John covici To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What about kernel 2.6.19 ? In-Reply-To: <200702180553.06590.dystopianray@gmail.com> References: <1171738502.45d74f86b66b7@imp.free.fr> <200702180531.21440.dystopianray@gmail.com> <20070217131137.40d5d646@pascal.spore.ath.cx> <200702180553.06590.dystopianray@gmail.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under Emacs 22.0.50.2 X-Archives-Salt: 3f97ca6f-2624-4784-a686-2ebc09743e5f X-Archives-Hash: 4ae7897df76e3b3a86d2cd4951ba036e 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 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. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici@ccs.covici.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list